Replied: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 00:09:59 EDT Replied: ""J. D. Verne" " From auto-replier-daemon@BLOOM-PICAYUNE.MIT.EDU Sat Sep 14 21:18:14 1996 Received: from MIT.EDU (SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU [18.72.1.2]) by bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU (8.6.13/2.3JIK) with SMTP id VAA29241; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 21:18:12 -0400 Received: from BLOOM-PICAYUNE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA29633; Sat, 14 Sep 96 21:17:49 EDT Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU (8.6.13/2.3JIK) id VAA29202; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 21:17:47 -0400 Received: from hopper.acs.ryerson.ca (hopper.acs.ryerson.ca [141.117.101.8]) by bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU (8.6.13/2.3JIK) with SMTP id VAA29171 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 21:17:26 -0400 Received: by hopper.acs.ryerson.ca (AIX 4.1/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA116598; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 21:16:24 -0400 Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 21:16:24 -0400 (EDT) From: "J. D. Verne" Old-To: news answers Old-Subject: Part 1 of 6 FAQ file for submittal Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: [checked] To: news-answers-request@MIT.EDU From: jon@taygeta.com (J. D. Verne) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth,comp.answers,news.answers Subject: Forth Programming Language FAQ: Part 1 of 6, General Information Message-ID: Reply-To: faq@taygeta.com (FAQ maintainers list) Followup-To: comp.lang.forth Distribution: world Organization: Forth Interest Group Expires: 20 Oct 96 00:56:15 Supersedes: Keywords: FAQ FORTH FIG Posted-By: auto-faq 3.3 beta (Perl 5.001) Archive-name: computer-lang/forth-faq/part1 Posting-Frequency: Monthly. A how-to-find-the-FAQ article is posted weekly. comp.lang.forth Frequently Asked Questions (1/6): Gen- eral/Misc M. Anton Ertl, anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at ____________________________________________________________ Table of Contents: 1. Acknowledgements 2. comp.lang.forth FAQs 3. General Questions 3.1. What is Forth? 3.2. Why and where is Forth used? 3.3. What language standards exist for Forth? 3.4. What is an RFI? 3.5. What is the Forth Interest Group? 4. Flame baits 4.1. Commercial vs. free Forth systems 4.2. Free Forth systems are bad for Forth. 4.3. Blocks vs. files 5. Miscellaneous 5.1. Where can I find a C-to-Forth compiler? 5.2. Where can I find a Forth-to-C compiler? 5.3. RECORDS in Forth? 5.4. Why does THEN finish an IF structure? ______________________________________________________________________ [remainder of text deleted by folder-shrink.pl]