euroFORTH '98

Internationalisation

euroFORTH was hosted for the second time by the International Meeting and Research Centre for Informatics Schloss Dagstuhl. Those who participated in 1995 learned to appreciate the professional and marvellous venue. The conference is held in cooperation with the German Gesellschaft für Informatik.

I am pleased to express special thanks to all who helped this this conference to be achieved, especially the responsables at the University of Saarland in Saarbrücken and the wonderful team of Dagstuhl Castle.

The focus of this years conference is the Internationalisation of Programming. And I would like to express my special thanks to Peter Knaggs who organised and managed the Internationalisation Workshop with his well-known enthusiasm.

Marina Kern,
Conference Organiser

Paul E. Bennett has written an extensive conference report in addition to providing a most interesting Photo Album.

Presentations include:

• FORTH Philosophy and Standardisation
  • Context-Oriented Programming, by M. L. Gassanenko (Refereed)
  • Top-down thinking and top-down writing in DSSP, by Sergey A. Sidorov
  • ANS Forth: Standardising a Moving Language, by Peter J. Knaggs

• Internationaliszation of programming in FORTH
  • Internationalising WIN32 – the final steps, by Nick J. Nelson
  • Internal Representation to External View, by Paul E. Bennett
  • Internationalisation – the user perspective, by Stephen Pelc, Willem Botha, Nick Nelson, and Peter Knaggs
  • Multiple Language Programs Made Easy, by Howerd Oakford

• Virtual and concrete machines
  • Open Interpreter: Portability of Return Stack Manipulations, by M. L. Gassanenko (Refereed)
  • Mite: a fast and flexible virtual machine, by Reuben Thomas
  • DROM: Parallel Stack Core for Embedded Application, by A. Tchepyjenko and K. Kazakevich
  • Spiders & Forth, by Jonathan Morrish

• Extensions: old and new words
  • state — Why it is Evil and How to Exorcise it, by M. Anton Ertl (Refereed)
  • CATCH and THROW, by Michael Milendorf
  • Transient and Context Controlled Scopes, by Egmont Woitzel
  • PRELUDE and FINALE: Implicit context switching based on pre- and post-executed words, by Manfred Mahlow
  • PRELUDE Object and Methods with error checking, by Klaus Schleisiek

• Forth in the Battlefield
  • Certification of High Integrity Software, by Paul E. Bennett and Malcolm Bugler
  • A Grid Control in Forth, by Nick J. Nelson
  • MINOS-System Integration, by Bernd Paysan
  • The MPE VFX Forth code generator, by Stephen Pelc

1. Context-Oriented Programming, by M. L. Gassanenko
2. Open Interpreter: Portability of Return Stack Manipulations, by M. L. Gassanenko
3. state — Why it is Evil and How to Exorcise it, by M. Anton Ertl

The Abstracts page also contains abstracts for some papers for which we do not have the paper online.

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