Forth: Difference between revisions

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Description

Imperative, hierarchical stack based language with an almost quasi-religious following. Like so many languages at the time FORTH was initially spelled all caps, but it had become the custom to spell it as a noun as early as the mid 70's, unlike most contemporary languages.

A list of OS/2 implementations of Forth

C-Forth - Open Source - Discontinued.
FIG Forth - Status unknown
FORTH/2 - Shareware - Discontinued
LMI Forth-83 - Commercial - Discontinued - Cross development tool that runs on top of UR/FORTH.
UR/Forth - Commercial - Discontinued.

Libraries, extensions and bindings

Editors with Forth support

A list of DOS implementations of Forth

C-Forth - Open Source - Discontinued.
ColorForth - Open source - Current.
eForth - Open source - Sort of current .....
FIG Forth - Open Source - Discontinued.
F-PC - Open source - Discontinued.
f83 - Open source - Discontinued.
LMI Forth-83 - Commercial - Discontinued - Cross development tool that runs on top of UR/FORTH.
Pigmy Forth - Open source.
UR/Forth - Commercial - Discontinued.

A list of Forth implementations that run under WinOS/2

A list of Forth implementations that run under Java

A list of Forth implementations in JavaScript

Publications

Byte Magazine August 1980 - Harks from a time when Byte used to have language specific issues, this one is the Forth issue and has a couple of now classic articles.

Local articles

Code snippets

Tutorials and other learning material

Links

USENET

comp.lang.forth - Surprisingly popular - Go to the Google groups version if your ISP does not offer USENET access or you are otherwise newsgroup challenged in any way.

Built with Forth

Standards

Forth history

Invented by Charles H. Moore in 1968.

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 ==A list of DOS implementations of Forth==
 * [[C-Forth]] - Open Source - Discontinued.
+* [http://www.colorforth.com/cf.htm ColorForth] - Open source - Current.
+* [[eForth]] - Open source - Sort of current .....
 * [[FIG Forth]] - Open Source - Discontinued.
+* [[F-PC]] - Open source - Discontinued.
+* [[f83]] - Open source - Discontinued.
 * [[LMI Forth-83]] - Commercial - Discontinued - Cross development tool that runs on top of UR/FORTH.
+* [http://pygmy.utoh.org/pygmyforth.html Pigmy Forth] - Open source.
 * [[UR/Forth]] - Commercial - Discontinued.