Re: RFC: Primary ColorForth

Hiya,

I think that's an excellent idea, although I'd include, or point to,  
a version of ColorForth that can be easily installed on as broad a  
range of consumer PCs (be they Macs, Linux or Windows driven) in  
order to be able to 'follow' the book.

Cheers,

Luis.


On 19 Jul 2006, at 23:09, John Drake wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I've been thinking about this for a while about the
> idea of us writing a colaborative book about getting
> started programming in ColorForth.  There's a lot
> of info about programming ColorForth, but it's
> spread around.  There's no definitive place I know
> of where someone can point a new user to and say
> "Here.  Follow these simple examples and you'll
> know how to program in ColorForth in 10 easy steps."
> One of the best sources of info is the mailing list
> archive, but you have to know what you're looking
> for.  Sometimes people "rediscover" what's already
> been done.  (Like me recently doing a "Hello world"
> that read from a block, only to notice today that
> someone had already posted that.  Oops. :) )
>
> Originally I was
> thinking about calling it "Starting ColorForth" as
> an homage to that the Leo Brodie book by a similair
> name and following a similair pattern.  However
> I've lately decided that a slightly different path
> is better for a few reasons.
>
> 1) No copyright issues.
> 2) A ColorForth book would need to take a different
> path.  (More on that later).
> 3) I think "Primary ColorForth" gives the same idea,
> while playing off the words "primary color".
>
> Like I said.  Originally I was thinking of following
> a similair path.  An update of Starting Forth is
> available on the web here.
>
> http://home.iae.nl/users/mhx/sf.html
>

snip


> Regards,
>
> John M. Drake
>
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