[clue] A Tech posting! [Tech]

[Lorin Ricker]

Grant -- Forth!  Wow! This goes back to my engineering days in the 
1980s, on what were then the just-one-decade-old "microprocessors" 
(things like 6800's -- no, not missing a zero --, 8080's, 4040's and the 
like!).  It'd be fun to revisit this concise, elegant language again, 
especially if someone's doing something interesting with it!

Forth is a stack-oriented (hence the RPN -- push/pop args and ops to & 
from the stack as the execution model), highly suitable for embedded 
applications (we did high-precision electrical/electronic real-time 
processing and instrumentation with it); we even derived some local 
enhancements and extensions (e.g., "Fifth", etc.), but those were the 
pre-FOSS days, and those efforts are lost to all but personal 
recollections! ;-)

This would be a fun topic -- anyone know of distro packages available 
for Forth on Linux?

best,
   -- Lorin

On 06/06/2011 01:41 PM, Grant wrote:
> A language I have been having fun with is forth. Very fast and if you
> like hp rpn calculators, you will love forth.
> --
> Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.