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[Lorin Ricker]

Exactly right, Dennis.  Back in the '80s, my buddy Lou and I called ours 
Fifth.  No, we weren't drinking (much) then; just seemed appropriate.

The "kernel" for a Forth-like language is tiny, almost trivial, and 
could certainly be done (and was done, in those days), in about 512 
bytes (or less) of assembler on ROM, which is why it was so popular for 
embedded apps.

Hardware engineers, in particular, loved it because it "wasn't really a 
programming language", just RPN...  But boy, in the right hands, for the 
right purpose, it was powerful and effective -- we shipped several 
products with Forth embedded as the driving engine.

   -- Lorin

On 06/06/2011 03:52 PM, dennisjperkins at comcast.net wrote:
> I think the favorite activity of many Forth users was to immediately
> write their own Forth. :)