[clue] Forth for fun (and profit?) [was: Re: A Tech posting!)] [Tech]
chris fedde
chris at fedde.us
Mon Jun 6 15:58:16 MDT 2011
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Lorin Ricker <Lorin at rickernet.us> wrote:
> 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
>
Ah forth. I did lots of work with forth back when the trs model-100
was still a cool computer. It seemed odd that a stack oriented
language did not support recursion. I suspect that recent versions
have solved that. In other news the FreeBSD boot loader was a version
of forth. Maybe it still is.
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