<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>I think the favorite activity of many Forth users was to immediately write their own Forth. :)<br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Lorin Ricker" <Lorin@RickerNet.us><br>To: "CLUE's mailing list" <clue@cluedenver.org><br>Sent: Monday, June 6, 2011 3:51:08 PM<br>Subject: [clue] Forth for fun (and profit?) [was: Re: A Tech posting!)] [Tech]<br><br>Just installed GForth 0.7.0 on Ubuntu 10.4/LL from repositories. Yup, <br>that's Forth...! Brings back fond memories! Thanks for the pointer, <br>Dennis. Now, what can I actually *do* with this today...? -- Lorin<br><br>On 06/06/2011 03:24 PM, dennisjperkins@comcast.net wrote:<br>> Gforth. Fig-Forth, F83, etc, all seem to be dead, which is a shame.<br>> Forth, Inc, is still alive.<br>><br>><br>> ----- Original Message -----<br>> From: "Lorin Ricker" <Lorin@RickerNet.us><br>> To: "CLUE's mailing list" <clue@cluedenver.org><br>> Sent: Monday, June 6, 2011 3:03:29 PM<br>> Subject: Re: [clue] A Tech posting! [Tech]<br>><br>> Grant -- Forth! Wow! This goes back to my engineering days in the<br>> 1980s, on what were then the just-one-decade-old "microprocessors"<br>> (things like 6800's -- no, not missing a zero --, 8080's, 4040's and the<br>> like!). It'd be fun to revisit this concise, elegant language again,<br>> especially if someone's doing something interesting with it!<br>><br>> Forth is a stack-oriented (hence the RPN -- push/pop args and ops to &<br>> from the stack as the execution model), highly suitable for embedded<br>> applications (we did high-precision electrical/electronic real-time<br>> processing and instrumentation with it); we even derived some local<br>> enhancements and extensions (e.g., "Fifth", etc.), but those were the<br>> pre-FOSS days, and those efforts are lost to all but personal<br>> recollections! ;-)<br>><br>> This would be a fun topic -- anyone know of distro packages available<br>> for Forth on Linux?<br>><br>> best,<br>> -- Lorin<br>><br>> On 06/06/2011 01:41 PM, Grant wrote:<br>> > A language I have been having fun with is forth. Very fast and if you<br>> > like hp rpn calculators, you will love forth.<br>> > --<br>> > Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.<br>_______________________________________________<br>clue mailing list: clue@cluedenver.org<br>For information, account preferences, or to unsubscribe see:<br>http://cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue<br></div></body></html>