I too encounterd that book in my youth.. and found it again here in the local library. So don't complain about high internet prices before checking out the free options!
I'm hoping to animate it some time - and make up a few more poems myself. I could even put out an edition of THE SIGNS OF MOTHER GOOSE: Semiotic Rhymes for Children...or some book where all the poetry is in M68K assembler,FORTH or JCL or whatever.
[bottles of beer on the wall, anyone?]
Fans of this book can pop over to Jef Poskanzer's home page to hear ALL off the Singing Science records (not just Space Songs, whence TMBG copped
"Why Does The Sun Shine?".)
visit: http://www.acme.com/jef/science_songs/. GLory to Tom Glazer, Dottie Collins, Marias and Miranda educating you with folk songs of Space, Weather, Nature and More Nature, Experiments and Energy & Motion!
The other books I read a lot in this vein as a child were the two anthologies "Mathematical Magpie" and "Fantasia Mathematica", books of short stories, poems, cartoons,jokes and songs with a Mathematical theme, edited by Clifton Fadiman.
You may have read a lot of these before, but there they are all in one place. (Nine Billion Names Of God, The Feeling Of Power,--And he built a Crooked House, The No-Sided Professor.. )
Rudy Rucker edited a similar (mostly inferior and a little redundant) collection called The Mathenauts much later.
As a seasoned FORTHer [I used CSI MultiForth and then the excellent jFORTH by Phil Burk to write my popular program RGS - and others - for the AMIGA], I can say, Yes, there are object oriented FORTHs, such as ODE (Phil Burk again.. the basis of HMSL) and NEON.
FORTH is different form other langauges in that every "program" actually is an extension to the language, and you can also create compilers and assemblers very simply. Once you have wrapped a FORTH word around a piece of hardware, you can abstract it as far as you want to!
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I too encounterd that book in my youth .. and found it again here in the local library. So don't complain about high internet prices before checking out the free options!
I'm hoping to animate it some time - and make up a few more poems myself. I could even put out an edition of THE SIGNS OF MOTHER GOOSE: Semiotic Rhymes for Children...or some book where all the poetry is in M68K assembler,FORTH or JCL or whatever.
[bottles of beer on the wall, anyone?]
Fans of this book can pop over to Jef Poskanzer's home page to hear ALL off the Singing Science records (not just Space Songs, whence TMBG copped "Why Does The Sun Shine?".) visit: http://www.acme.com/jef/science_songs/. GLory to Tom Glazer, Dottie Collins, Marias and Miranda educating you with folk songs of Space, Weather, Nature and More Nature, Experiments and Energy & Motion!
The other books I read a lot in this vein as a child were the two anthologies "Mathematical Magpie" and "Fantasia Mathematica", books of short stories, poems, cartoons,jokes and songs with a Mathematical theme, edited by Clifton Fadiman.
You may have read a lot of these before, but there they are all in one place. (Nine Billion Names Of God, The Feeling Of Power,--And he built a Crooked House, The No-Sided Professor .. )
Rudy Rucker edited a similar (mostly inferior and a little redundant) collection called The Mathenauts much later.
As a seasoned FORTHer [I used CSI MultiForth and then the excellent jFORTH by Phil Burk to write my popular program RGS - and others - for the AMIGA], I can say, Yes, there are object oriented FORTHs, such as ODE (Phil Burk again.. the basis of HMSL) and NEON.
FORTH is different form other langauges in that every "program" actually is an extension to the language, and you can also create compilers and assemblers very simply. Once you have wrapped a FORTH word around a piece of hardware, you can abstract it as far as you want to!