FORTH for the SHARP PC-E500 (S)

[robve]

(09-12-2021 11:40 PM)Helix Wrote:  In fact, I don't know Forth very well. I just read the beginning of "Starting Forth", tried various Forth versions for MS-DOS, but I did not continue. It would be a nice occasion to learn Forth more seriously.

There are very few Forth introductory texts (and serious texts) that do a decent job explaining and demonstrating Forth programming "philosophy" (for lack of a better word), because Forth is not only about pushing and popping stuff on stacks.

The following video does a really good job by walking through a realistic Forth project, where he explains his decisions and his approach to solve the problem and how to refactor Forth code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvrE2ZGe-rs

He assumes a basic understand of Forth, i.e. how the dictionary works and the two stacks are used. The Forth500 dictionary structure is traditional and should be easy to follow, which helps to internally visualize the concept.

- Rob