Use of Forth in a course in computer algebra

Abstract

ABSTWCT: A course in Computer Algebra was developed at UCSD to teach mathematics majors about symbolic and seminumeric computation. Forth has been found to be an excellent language to acquaint these students with the ideas involved in representing and manipulating mathematics by computer. Forth, as a teaching language, has the distinct advantage of making visible some important things which most languages try to conceal. It does this without sacrificing high level language features which facilitate programming