[clue] A Tech posting! [Tech]
Lorin Ricker
Lorin at RickerNet.us
Mon Jun 6 15:03:29 MDT 2011
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.
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