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. Several papers are available online thanks to Ulrich Hoffmann, who scanned them.

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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