euroFORTH '91

The FORTH programming language and FORTH processors

euroFORTH '91 was held at the Casino of Mariánské Láznè (Marienbad), Czechoslovakia, 11-13 October. A copy of the proceedings are available from Delta t, and have been published with the FORML'92 conference proceedings.

Presentations include:

• Applications:
  • Controlling a large commercial laundry using Forth, by N. J. Nelson.
  • A Research Resistance Welding Timer Using the RTX-2000 and ADSP-2100 Processors, by K. A. Osman and N. J. Holden.

• Automation:
  • A FMS-Realisation in USW Object-Oriented Environment, by Lyubomir P. Blagoev.
  • Forth Computer Based on Intel 8098, by Zuoping Chen and Keizheng Ding.
  • A Simple Emulator for Forth Programming with Embedded Controllers, by Chavdar Levkov.
  • Forth in Networking, by Bozhil R. Makaveev and Emil S. Mihailov.

• Reports:
  • Forth Activities in the Soviet Union, by S. N. Baranoff.
  • ANS Forth Update, by Mitch Bradley.
  • Open Boot Firmware, by Mitch Bradley.

• Points of View:
  • Why adapt to Forth?, by Roy Goddard.
  • There are insufficiencies in Forth - Let's do something about it!, by Bengt Grahn.
  • SMAN: The Ultimate Language Independent Programming Environment, by Bengt Grahn.
  • Fat Forths and Invisible Technology, by S. Pelc.
  • An Industrial Organisation Experiment Based on Property Rights in Computer Software, by David K. Walker.
  • TRY A Simple Exception Handler, by Wolf Wejgaard.

• Beyond Forth:
  • FOSM, A FOrth String Matcher, by Gordon Charlton.
  • World's Slowest Maths Routines, by Gordon Charlton.
  • OOF, and Object Oriented Forth, by M. Dahm.
  • The DFF-System - A Databased Forth - Two Years Later, by Frank Stüss, Frank Raschke and Detlef Heid.
  • Translator Writing System With Object Language Forth, by Mati Tombak.
  • Object Oriented Extensions To Forth, by Rod Crawford.

• Techniques:
  • A Forth Bucket-Brigade, by Paul Kopff.
  • V.G.A. graphics and 3-D animations, by Paul Kopff.
  • Forth TSRs - Terminate and Stay Resident, by Graham Dolding.
  • Compiling Conditional Constructs, by Tomasz Malitka and Klaus Schleisiek-Kern.
  • Stack Checking - A Debugging Aid, by Ulrich Hoffmann.
  • Multiple Stack-Effects of Forth-Programs, by Jaanus Pöial.
  • Type Inference in Stack Based Languages, by Bill Stoddart and Peter J. Knaggs.

• Teaching:
  • Forth Computer Aided Education system, by Zuoping Chen.
  • Learn Forth by Forth, by Lozina Nyagolova and Todorova

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