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Hi Dan > That's very interesting, Tom. Could you tell me more about applications >for Forth? It is traditionally a language designed for controllers, originally used to control the complex motions of a telescope on Kitt's Peak I beleive. Nevertheless it has been used to write other languages, other operating systems, and every imaginable program including general business programs. The general purpose test editor I use for everything on my Amiga is TEXTRA, written in Jforth Professional. It is available from the Amiga Forum file area here on CIS in the Demo version. > Is JForth Profession still available? I honestly don't know, I bought my copy used. The last address I have for them (Amazing Summer94 Guide p. 58) is Delta Research Box 151051 San Rafael, CA 94915 415-453-4320 BTW it includes a registered version of Textra and has features to aid writing programs in Forth and other languages. This is probably the best version to use, but there is also an MVP Amiga Forth, and a very high level version mentioned in the FAQ on Usenet available from the U.K. somewhere or other at great cost. Jforth can produce standalone compiled code as delivered and does not restrict the programmer from selling it. A free version can be had from FIG, (Forth Interest Group), for Amiga and C64 and just about any other computer ever produced. I even have a version for the RCA 1802 CMOS processor of yore. I also think I still have a C64 version somewhere. Some good texts on this that might be in the library are "Thinking Forth" by Leo Brodie and "Mastering Forth" by Anita Anderson/Martin Tracy/Micromotion. > Logo! Does anyone remember that language? Indeed. There have been Amiga versions ever since the A1000 and turtles once crawled on every screen. There are also Amiga Fortran, Pascal, Modula2, Cobol, C++, Basic, ADA, and even more. But as far as I have ever heard it seems like Logo has always been mostly a scholarly exercise to teach logic to children and students that never was used to create anything very practical. I am probably misguided in that thought and I will no doubt hear about it. 🙂 Tom alternate: jonest@hfsi.com I never met a man I didn't like…Will Rogers