euroFORML '92

Unity, Communications and Exploration

euroFORML '92 was held at the Potters Heron, Ampfield, England, 23-25 October. A copy of the proceedings are available from MPE Ltd, and are to be published with the FORML'94 conference proceedings.

Presentations include:

• Good, Plus Good, Double Plus Good
  • WRITING better Forth, by R. Crawford.
  • Unity and Communication for Exploration, by R. Goddard.
  • HOLON - A New Way of Forth, by W. Wejgaard.

• Object Lessons in Hard Truths
  • Towards Programming in Natural Language Style in the Object-Oriented Forth netOOF, by M. Dahm.
  • The Specification Language ETF1, by A. Maricic.
  • Rule-Based Expert Shell for Real-Time Control, by V. Lolov and J. Fluk.
  • Marketing Forth and Forth Products in Bulgaria: Problems and perspective, by L. Nyagolova.
  • A DMA-Based PC-AT Communication Architecture for DSP Applications Using FIFO RAMs, by D. Demir, F. Kurugöllü, M. Erat, S. Birecik, S. Çetin and A. Bouridane.
  • A 448 Byte Forth Multitasking Kernel, by A. Robertson.
  • FRP 1600 - 16-Bit Real Time Processor, by K. Schleisiek-Kern.

• Methods and Skills in Harmony
  • The Hysteretic Heap, by G. Charlton.
  • A New Approach to Forth Native Code Generation, by M. A. Ertl.
  • Cellular Automata on a Personal Computer, by S. Baranoff.
  • Multi-Target Program Product Stripping in Beta-Forth, by S. Baranoff.
  • Implementation of the Forth Type Checker, by W. Stoddart.
  • The (almost) Complete Theory of Forth Type Inference, by W. Stoddart and P. J. Knaggs.
  • PROCIC - Process Computer for Computationally Intensive Control, by S. Pelc.

• Application - The Employment Connection
  • FOSM, A FOrth String Matcher, continued, by G. R. Carlton.
  • Application of the RTX Processor as a High Performance Mutli-channel Data Converter, by M. G. Smart.
  • SMAN - From Greatness to Excellence, by B. Grahn.
  • Forth at the International Convention Centre, Birmingham, England, by A. K. Barns.
  • The DBMS - Forth realisation problems and solutions, by B. Makaveev.
  • A Portable Implementation of Logo in Forth, by S. Baranoff and D. S. Preobrazhensky.
  • Using Forth to Improve Programming Productivity on Programmable Controllers, by N. J. Nelson.

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