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

[dennisjperkins at comcast.net]

I think the favorite activity of many Forth users was to immediately write their own Forth. :) 

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

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. 
> 
> 
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> From: "Lorin Ricker" <Lorin at RickerNet.us> 
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> Sent: Monday, June 6, 2011 3:03:29 PM 
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> 
> 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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