Forth

History

Chuck Moore — inventor of FORTH. I saw Chuck at Strange Loop 2013. The picture on his home page is from his talk at that Event.

Articles

• A collection of links to FORTH articles and resources.
• My history with Forth & stack machines
• Shell Has a Forth-Like Quality | HN
• Thoughts on Forth Programming. comments.

• Interview with Chuck Moore in Masterminds of Programming

Presentations

• “Forth: The programming language that writes itself” — Dave’s Forth Talk 2023 ;HN

Books

• A Beginner’s Guide to Forth by J.V. Noble
• Josefg/Scientific_FORTH: Create a Scientific FORTH

Implementations

• 8th-dev — modern programming language for mobile, desktop, server and embedded application development

• Gush: A stack based language eventually for genetic programming — DustyCloud Brainstorms

• Easy Forth a browser based forth + tutorial.

See also: Factor

• jonesforth/jonesforth.S at master · nornagon/jonesforth “A sometimes minimal FORTH compiler and tutorial for Linux / i386 systems.”

• cxxforth/cxxforth.cpp.md at master · kristopherjohnson/cxxforth “use modern C++ to create a Forth implementation that is easy to understand, easy to port, and easy to extend. ” written in literate style.

• XXIIVV — forth

Discussions

Interesting take:

Forth is the language that taught me (among other things) that its possible to break problems into pieces that are too small to understand the whole. I’m not sure really what to call this other than something along the lines of can’t see the forest for the trees. Its the opposite of having functions so large it takes hours to figure out what they do. In this case you have words that you can’t figure out what they do for days because the call graphs step across 300 different modules and 10k other words all of which are like “update-pie-with-apples” and comprise two other words “dup pie, apple-pie-update” or something. — via