euroFORTH '94

Exploiting Forth: Professionally, Commercially & Industrially

euroFORTH '94 was held in the Royal Hotel, Winchester, England, 4-6 November. A copy of the proceedings are available from MPE Ltd., and are to be published with the FORML'95 conference proceedings.

This was the first of the euroFORTH conferences to have a formally refereed section. The refereed papers where presented along with the non-refereed papers and are marked here with "(Refereed)" appearing after the reference.

Gordon Charlton has written a report of the conference.

Presentations include:

• Compilation Techniques
  • Stack Caching for Interpreters, by M. Anton Ertl (Refereed).
  • Combined Addressing Model for 8086 Processor, by M.L. Gassanenko.
  • The Effects Of Local Variable Optimisation In A C-Based Stack Processor Environment, by C. Bailey, R. Sotudeh and M Ould-Khaoua.
  • Forth and Register Transfer Language, by Graeme R. A. Dunbar and John Boyce (Refereed).
  • Automatic Scoping of Local Variables, by M. Anton Ertl (Refereed).
  • BacFORTH: An Approach To New Control Structures, by M. L. Gassanenko.

• Formal Methods
  • Forth and Formal Language Theory, by Jaanus Pöial (Refereed).
  • Forth as an Abstract Machine, by Bill Stoddart.

• Competition & Exploration of Commercial Forth
  • How to make money out of Forth, by Ben Campbell.
  • Embedded Systems Debugging: The return of software, by Stephen Pelc.
  • Validating Forth Source Text - A Design Concept, by Howerd Oakford.
  • Rhyme, Reason and the Tao of Forth, by Lawrence P. G. Forsley.

• Embedded Applications
  • Going Forth with Echelon, by Malcolm Bugler and Francis Tracey.
  • A Distributed Data Acquisition and Decision Making System, by Tim Hendtlass (Refereed).

• GUI & Professional Products
  • A GUI Toolkit for polyFORTH, by Elizabeth D. Rather.
  • Tool interactivity for rapid GUI application development, by Gary Ellis and Roy Goddard.
  • Commercial exploitation of the interactive advantage, by Roy Goddard.
  • EXPRESS: A Forth-based Process Control Software Product, by Elizabeth D. Rather.

• Forth Techniques
  • An ANS Heap, by Gorden Charlton.
  • A Library versus A Kernel, by Alan M Robertson.
  • Handling source code and images in natOOF: The concept and some applications, by Markus Dahm.
  • Interactive Remote Target Compilation and the PIC16CXX, by Alan M. Robertson.
  • A Taste of Direct Programming, by Wolf Wejgaard.
  • MURRY 2000: The Desktop SuperComputer, by Bjorn J Gruenwald and Lawrence P. Forsley.

1. Stack Caching for Interpreters, by M. Anton Ertl.
2. Forth and Register Transfer Language, by Graeme R. A. Dunbar and John Boyce.
3. Automatic Scoping of Local Variables, by M. Anton Ertl.
4. Forth and Formal Language Theory, by Jaanus Pöial.
5. A Distributed Data Acquisition and Decision Making System, by Tim Hendtlass.

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