Starting Forth: An Introduction to the Forth Language and Operating System for Beginners and Professionals [Paperback]

Leo Brodie (Author), Inc Staff Forth (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1982

For beginners and professionals, this popular and complete introduction to FORTH syntax has been expanded to include the new FORTH-83 Standard. It is suitable for all FORTH-83 Standard systems and is a complete guide to learning FORTH with special footnotes that address FORTH-79, MVP-FORTH and FIG-FORTH versions.

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Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

A user-friendly beginner's tutorial on the Forth programing language and operating system. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 16 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall (March 1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0138429227
• ISBN-13: 978-0138429225
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,023,150 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Leo Brodie is the author of Starting Forth and Thinking Forth. He is currently employed as Director of Technical Services for NetSpeed Learning Solutions in Seattle. He is married and the father of three children. He has released a CD of his own music called "Across The Years", available here on Amazon.

Customer Reviews

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Truly Amazing Book, September 7, 2002

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Joseph A. Knapka (El Paso, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Starting Forth: An Introduction to the Forth Language and Operating System for Beginners and Professionals (Paperback)

Somebody REPRINT THIS BOOK!

"Starting Forth" is the only Forth book I own. After reading it, I was able to implement a Forth runtime system, compiler, and interpreter, from scratch, in 8086 assembly - the results can be found at home.earthlink.net/~jknapka/jkf.html . I credit this mainly to Leo Brodie's skill as an expository writer. The book is a gem; if someone were to reprint it, I for one would buy several copies, just in case.

The reason no one will reprint "Starting Forth" is that Forth is not sufficiently trendy. If we rename the language "JavaForth", we'll be drowning in reprints...

Sigh.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An excellent programming introduction, not just to FORTH, August 8, 2000

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asparagi "Brenda L" (Santa Clara, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Starting Forth: An Introduction to the Forth Language and Operating System for Beginners and Professionals (Paperback)

This book is a very clear introduction to programming and the stack. The cartoons are very entertaining and descriptive, and the book would make light reading even for beginning programmers. Those who program, but not yet in Forth, will also be happy with the quick introduction.

Why on earth is this fabulous book out of print?

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Won't someone reprint this book?, May 1, 2000

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Michael J Edelman (Huntington Woods, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Starting Forth: An Introduction to the Forth Language and Operating System for Beginners and Professionals (Paperback)

A wonderful book. I bought mine in 1980, and a week later I had an old Northstar Z-80 computer running real-time behavioral experiments in FORTH at (so it seemed) blinding speed.

We need this book!