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Forth, discovered by Chuck Moore in 1968, is a timeless, expressive family of concatenative languages that can be ported to any machine in a day. Rivaled only by Lisp in its flexibility, forth is a language construction kit: you create a forth that solves your problem. There is no one true forth - it is a state of mind.
How do you run the Forth you write?
💬 5 comments · 2023-08-12 · 4 weeks ago · 🗳️
Modern Forth utilities — Does anyone know modern software written in Forth? I would like to read the source code of one but I don't really know where to look.
💬 6 comments · 1 like · 2023-08-10 · 4 weeks ago
I just came across Charles Childer's new experiments with RetroForth. I lost track of RetroForth years ago, and it's great that it's going strong. The new dialects seem to focus on specialized VMs that bundle several MachineForth-like 5/6-bit opcodes into a 32-bit word... [gemini link] [gemini link] [gemini link]
💬 1 comment · 2023-08-08 · 4 weeks ago