Introduction

 Holon
 Forth
 Papers

Holon Papers

In addition to the descriptions of Holon and Forth, you find here background information about the development of Holon. 

I have described Holon and speculated about Forth in several papers presented to the EuroFORTH conference since 1989.

These papers have been published in the conference proceedings. I have slightly reedited them for the web.

• Not Blocks nor Files but Words  -- describing the first version of Holon in 1989. The benefits of storing source text in a database.

• The Beauty of Separate Systems  -- why Forth is at its best when host and target are separated by an "umbilical" link.

• A Taste of Direct Programming  -- about immediacy and direct, instant, "hands-on" programming.

• A Fresh Look at the Forth Dictionary -- including the source text in the dictionary.

• Objects in Holon  -- about the object types in Holon, which also work across the umbilical link.

Copyright © 1999 by Wolf Wejgaard