This was one of the first programming books I read as a kid, after Brodie's "Starting Forth" and a bunch of not very memorable books about BASIC.
It remains the standard to which I hold all programming books I read. The author's enthusiasm and patient but never patronizing style drew me in, and the book's recognition that language and methodology are not inseparable changed how I viewed programming; the observation that design and implementation a dance rather than a handshake changed how I looked at software.
A classic worth reading even if you never intend to use Forth.
It remains the standard to which I hold all programming books I read. The author's enthusiasm and patient but never patronizing style drew me in, and the book's recognition that language and methodology are not inseparable changed how I viewed programming; the observation that design and implementation a dance rather than a handshake changed how I looked at software.
A classic worth reading even if you never intend to use Forth.