EuroForth 2001

The 17^th EuroForth Conference found us back for the third time at a favourite venu: Castle Dagstuhl in Saarland, Germany. Conferences, and cakes, in this place are always memorable, but this conference proved to be even more special than usual, with the participation of the inventor of Forth, our special guest Chuck Moore.

Thakyou to all writers and presenters, to the programme committee, and to Dr Peter Knaggs our proceedings editor. Without you the conference would not have been possible. Many thanks also to our local organiser at Dagstuhl, Nicole Probst, to Angelika Mueller at the Dagstuhl office, and to the kind and patient staff of the castle, who have done so much to make this conference easy and enjoyable to organise.

The proceedings of the 17^th EuroForth Conference are from the University of Teesside (ISBN: 0 907550 97 6). Indivdual papers may be downloaded from the list below.

Presentations include:

• Invited Papers
  • c18 colorForth Compiler by Chuck Moore
  • 25x Emulator by Chuck Moore

• Applications
  • A Web-Server in Forth, by Bernd Paysan.
  • Forth versus the Beast: Taming an aggressive watchdog, by Malcolm Bugler.
  • A Windows Driver Program Written in Forth, by Nick Nelson.
  • CANed Objects, by Alan Robertson.

• Algorithms and Optimisations
  • Threaded Code Variation and Optimizations, by M. Anton Ertl. (Refereed)
  • The Common Case in Forth Programs, by David Gregg, M. Anton Ertl, and John Waldron. (Refereed)
  • Using Communicating State Machines to Design an Interrupt Driven Task Schedular, by Bill Stoddart.

• Theory and Extensions
  • Treating Data as Source, by Jenny Brien.
  • OO Package for Embedded Control, by Daniel Ciesinger.
  • Joy: Forth's Functional Cousin, by Manfred von Thun and Reuben Thomas.

• Machines and Systems
  • colorForth and the Art of the Impossible, by Howerd Oakford.
  • The Mite VM: bridging the complexity gulf, by Reuben Thomas.
  • A Minimal Development Environment for the AVR processor, by Federico de Ceballos.
  • Micro Core an open-source, scalable VHDL synthesisable dual stack Harvard processor for FPGAs, by Klaus Schleisiek

• Tutorial
  • An informal tutorial on Joy by Manfred von Thun

There where two refereed papers presented:

1. Threaded Code Variation and Optimizations, by M. Anton Ertl.
2. The Common Case in Forth Programs, by David Gregg, M. Anton Ertl, and John Waldron.

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