From: dxforth@gmail.com   
      
   On 5/12/2025 3:28 am, Buzz McCool wrote:   
   > On 12/4/2025 3:29 AM, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:   
   >>   
   >> I recently reread the pdf file from Bezemer (dated 2001!)   
   >> It is relatively short, and well balanced (I think)   
   >   
   > What do you think of "Forth: A Text and Reference" by Kelly & Spies?   
   > https://archive.org/details/forthtextreferen0000kell/mode/2up   
      
   For a newcomer to forth any book can hold a fascination.  Similar to   
   others by the time I briefly came across it I already knew forth.  I   
   don't recall much but given the publication date and claim "For all   
   versions of FORTH" presumably it covered Forth-83 which was the basis   
   of Forth-94.  Books handling more than one Forth standard were not   
   uncommon but made for some clumsiness.  OTOH Forth-94 becoming the   
   'one true religion' has for me begun to grate to the point where 'I   
   wish it'd all go away' to borrow Zappa's line.  What in the Kelly/   
   Spies book grabbed my interest?  It was the screen editor included   
   which I essentially still use today.   
      
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