Re: [gforth] starting forth

[Mayuresh Kathe]

On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 01:45:38PM +0330, Bahman Movaqar wrote:
> On 11/05/2013 11:35, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
> > Hello, just subscribed to the list and hence my first post here.
> >
> > First time on Forth and so with GForth.
> >
> > Have been advised to work through "Starting Forth", but looks like the
> > exercises and examples won't work under GForth, might be because
> > "Starting Forth" doesn't use ANS Forth.
> 
> As Robert said, the book is not that far from ANS Forth.  So my
> suggestion would be the book too.  Also there are people on #forth on
> Freenode who may help you (assuming you're patient enough :-)
> 
> >
> > Any suggestions about how I could self-train with GForth while working
> > through "Starting Forth" would be much appreciated. :)
> > If not at all possible, would the listas be kind enough to suggest an
> > implementation of Forth which supports "Starting Forth" well?
> > I'm under Ubuntu Server 13.10 on an Intel 64-bit machine.
> >
> 
> I'm sure you already know this but I'd suggest you define a small pet
> project for yourself and try to apply Forth to it.  For example I laid
> down a childish encryption algorithm and wrote a program to
> encrypt/decrypt string and files.  It helped me a lot.

Thanks a lot for this tip Bahman, will definitely try this approach,
might help me more than I can imagine at the moment.  :)

~Mayuresh