Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 21:29:13 -0500 From: Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com> To: mccyron@kc.rr.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: beastie.4th language ? Message-ID: <1110335353.666.22.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> In-Reply-To: <422E157D.6060404@bouncebk.com> References: <200503081554.j28FsVt15888@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <422E157D.6060404@bouncebk.com>
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On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 16:13, McCy Ron wrote: > 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" > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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" If you want to try out FORTH, there is a port available for FreeBSD. cd /usr/ports/lang/gforth make make install But it is a bit of a lost art - scripting languages like Perl, Python, Ruby and TCL are far more productive for most purposes. FORTH, nevertheless, is very different and quite fascinating.home | help
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