And There's More...

In this brief introduction we have seen some of the most basic concepts in Forth;

• Using the command line interpreter for interactive development
• Some integer maths operators
• Some stack flow operators
• Extending Forth with the colon compiler
• Some control flow operators

The aspects of Forth that are not covered here include;

• Operators for other data types, such as char, string, floating point etc.
• Other predefined compilers, such as VARIABLE and CONSTANT
• File Handling
• Virtual Memory
• Exception Handling
• Forth Assemblers
• Multitasking
• Creating new task specific compilers
• Extending the colon compiler
• Statically allocated memory
• Dynamically allocated memory
• Forth development tools
• Writing a new Forth system in Forth

If this introduction has whetted your appetite, you may want to visit some of the other Forth related items present on the 'net;

• Forth Information on Taygeta (A good starting place for many other links)
• Forth Interest Group homepage
• The newsgroup comp.lang.forth