<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Gforth. Fig-Forth, F83, etc, all seem to be dead, which is a shame. 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>