euroFORTH '93

Forth in distributed intelligence and networks for real time control

euroFORTH '93 was held at the Museum of Mariánské Láznè (Marienbad), Czech Republic, 15-18 October. A copy of the proceedings are available from Delta t, and are to be published with the FORML'94 conference proceedings.

Presentations include:

• Formal Forth
  • Towards a Formal Forth, by Peter J. Knaggs.
  • Some Ideas on Formal Specification of Forth Programs, by Jaanus Pöial.
  • Static Stack Effect Analysis, by Ulrich Hoffmann.
  • The Halting Problem in Forth, by Bill Stoddart.
  • Self Reference and Type Inference in Forth, by Bill Stoddart.
  • A Look at Forth's Academic Standing, by Peter J. Knaggs.

• Evolution of Forth
  • A Portable Forth Engine, by M. Anton Ertl.
  • Context-Oriented Programming: Evolution of Vocabularies, by M. L. Gassanenko.
  • Multi-CFA DOES>, by M. L. Gassanenko.
  • The Common Sense Pattern Classifier: Application Studies, by John D. Carpenter.

• Software Engineering
  • A Graphical User Interface in natOOF, by Markus Dahm.
  • Porting Forth through C on Workstations, by Christophe Lavarenne.
  • Quick, Make a Wighing Machine!, by N. J. Nelson.
  • "Error-0 undefined" versus "C1000 Unknown Fatal Error...", by Richard Borrell.
  • Interactive Cross Platform Development, by Wolf Wejgaard.

• Products in Forth
  • Increasing RTX-2001 Return Stack Depth, by Vassil Lolov and Jürgen Fluk.
  • AFORTHable ATE - Implementing Inexpensive Automatic Test Systems using Forth, by Malcolm Bugler.
  • IX: The First Forth Single Chip Controller, by Klaus Schleisiek-Kern.

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