On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 01:45:38PM +0330, Bahman Movaqar wrote: > On 11/05/2013 11:35, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > Hello, just subscribed to the list and hence my first post here. > > > > First time on Forth and so with GForth. > > > > Have been advised to work through "Starting Forth", but looks like the > > exercises and examples won't work under GForth, might be because > > "Starting Forth" doesn't use ANS Forth. > > As Robert said, the book is not that far from ANS Forth. So my > suggestion would be the book too. Also there are people on #forth on > Freenode who may help you (assuming you're patient enough :-) > > > > > Any suggestions about how I could self-train with GForth while working > > through "Starting Forth" would be much appreciated. :) > > If not at all possible, would the listas be kind enough to suggest an > > implementation of Forth which supports "Starting Forth" well? > > I'm under Ubuntu Server 13.10 on an Intel 64-bit machine. > > > > I'm sure you already know this but I'd suggest you define a small pet > project for yourself and try to apply Forth to it. For example I laid > down a childish encryption algorithm and wrote a program to > encrypt/decrypt string and files. It helped me a lot.
Thanks a lot for this tip Bahman, will definitely try this approach, might help me more than I can imagine at the moment. :) ~Mayuresh
