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



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