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Other books on ANS Forth

As the standard is relatively new, there are not many books out yet. It is not recommended to learn Forth by using Gforth and a book that is not written for ANS Forth, as you will not know your mistakes from the deviations of the book.

There is, of course, the standard, the definite reference if you want to write ANS Forth programs. It is available in printed form from the National Standards Institute Sales Department (Tel.: USA (212) 642-4900; Fax.: USA (212) 302-1286) as document X3.215-1994 for about $200. You can also get it from Global Engineering Documents (Tel.: USA (800) 854-7179; Fax.: (303) 843-9880) for about $300.

dpANS6, the last draft of the standard, which was then submitted to ANSI for publication is available electronically and for free in some MS Word format, and it has been converted to HTML. Some pointers to these versions can be found through
`http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/projects/forth.html'.

Forth: The new model by Jack Woehr (Prentice-Hall, 1993) is an introductory book based on a draft version of the standard. It does not cover the whole standard. It also contains interesting background information (Jack Woehr was in the ANS Forth Technical Committe). It is not appropriate for complete newbies, but programmers experienced in other languages should find it ok.


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