Object-oriented forth : Implementation of data structures

Serious users of Forth will be aware of the critics’ jibe that the
language encourages “write-only"’ programming. Dick Pountain
shows in this book how this description might soon become
Outdated: a systematic approach to Duilding data structures can
result in reusable debugged and tested modules of code.
Improved programmer productiwiy and secunfty can be
achieved without detracting from the interactivity, flexibility and
unrestricted access to the hardware which make Forth so useful
(particularly to those scientists and engineers who need to wrile
control programs for novel hardware)
The ‘added value’ in the book is that it is the first to make
object oriented programming available to users of even very
small home compulers illustrating a small and simple implemen-
tation of whal is a very powerful methodology
Whether you are an enthusiastic amateur or a professional
involved in new and complex instrument Control, whether you
use a home computer of a large and powerful one, every Forth
programmer and implementer should read this book.
Even the odd C or Fortran programmer might find it interesting!