Replied: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 19:13:10 EDT Replied: "faq@taygeta.com (FAQ maintainers list) " From jon@taygeta.com Wed Oct 2 14:16:02 1996 Received: from MIT.EDU (PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU [18.69.0.28]) by bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU (8.6.13/2.3JIK) with SMTP id OAA13069; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 14:16:01 -0400 Received: from relay2.UU.NET by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA24082; Wed, 2 Oct 96 14:12:45 EDT Received: from ns1.itvcorp.com by relay2.UU.NET with ESMTP (peer crosschecked as: NS1.itvcorp.com [206.171.8.7]) id QQbjsi18612; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 14:12:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from news.itvcorp.com ([206.171.8.11]) by ns1.itvcorp.com (post.office MTA v1.9.3 ID# 0-13035) with SMTP id AAA306 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 11:13:27 -0700 To: news-answers@uunet.uu.net 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: 06 Nov 96 18:01:26 Supersedes: Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.EDU Keywords: FAQ FORTH FIG Path: taygeta.com!jon Originator: jon@taygeta.com Date: 2 Oct 96 18:12:39 GMT Lines: 294 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]