I had Learning Forth, by Leo Broody, but I don't recall the illustrations you mentioned.
On Feb 1, 2010, at 1:00 PM, Ian Clark <earthspo...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> One winning instructional strategy, including Gilman and Rose, >> is telling a story for each piece of material. Such stories, >> among other things, may revolve around exo-paradigms. > > When I used to program in FORTH (sign of a mis-spent youth) one > well-beloved primer in the FORTH community was illustrated with > engaging but instructive cartoons. Thus the standard word SWOP was a > little two-headed dragon that did what you'd guess with objects on the > stack. Can anyone remember the book and remind me of its title? > > I know someone (http://www.leelamaria.com/) who could do us a wodge of > cartoons like that. Shall I try to get them interested? > > Ian > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm