Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 15:13:33 -0600 From: McCy Ron <ron@bouncebk.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: beastie.4th language ? Message-ID: <422E157D.6060404@bouncebk.com> In-Reply-To: <200503081554.j28FsVt15888@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <200503081554.j28FsVt15888@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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Starting Forth by Leo Brodie is a good book on Forth. http://www.forth.org/ will offer other tutorialsl. Jerry McAllister wrote: >>Hi, >> >>My question might seem basic. Nevertheless I didn't find the answer on >>the net. Excuse me in case I did look seriously enough, which might >>afterall, be the case. >> >>The files under the /boot directory on FreeBSD : beastie.4th and the >>included ones screen.4th and frames.4th are obviously written in a >>certain scripting language. >> >>What is this language ? >>Can I get a turorial for this scripting language ? >>Or even a reference manual ? >> >> > >I believe the language is Forth. It is a fairly esotheric language >that is used because it has a very small footprint and is still >quite flexible. I don't know about tutorials, but I have seen >an occasional book on it. I had one and actually installed Forth >on a machine and tried to learn it once, several years ago but the >rewards/effort ratio got to me and I haven't gone back to it. > >////jerry > > > >>Any URL or suggestion would be appreciated. >> >>Thanks in advance. >> >>Michel >> >> >> >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > >
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