[clue] Forth for fun (and profit?) [was: Re: A Tech posting!)] [Tech]

[Lorin Ricker]

Just installed GForth 0.7.0 on Ubuntu 10.4/LL from repositories.  Yup, 
that's Forth...!  Brings back fond memories!  Thanks for the pointer, 
Dennis.  Now, what can I actually *do* with this today...?  -- Lorin

On 06/06/2011 03:24 PM, dennisjperkins at comcast.net wrote:
> 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>
> To: "CLUE's mailing list" <clue at cluedenver.org>
> 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.
>  > --
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