[clue] Forth (Was: A Tech posting!) [Tech]

[dennisjperkins at comcast.net]

Gforth. Fig-Forth, F83, etc, all seem to be dead, which is a shame. Forth, Inc, is still alive. 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lorin Ricker" <Lorin at RickerNet.us> 
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Sent: Monday, June 6, 2011 3:03:29 PM 
Subject: Re: [clue] A Tech posting! [Tech] 

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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