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.
Portable Forth Environment - Open Source - Current
UR/Forth - Commercial - Discontinued.

Libraries, extensions and bindings

Editors with Forth support

A list of DOS implementations of Forth

Ale Forth - Freeware - Discontinued.
BBL - Freeware - Discontinued.
bigForth - Commercial - Discontinued.
C-Forth - Open Source - Discontinued.
ciforth - Open source - Current.
ColorForth - Open source - Current.
eForth - Open source - Sort of current .....
FIG Forth - Open Source - Discontinued.
F-PC - Open source - Discontinued.
Forth Express - Commercial - Discontinued.
Forthmacs - Commercial - Discontinued.
f83 - Open source - Discontinued.
GForth - Open source - Discontinued.
Golden Porcupine Forth - Shareware - Discontinued.
HENCE4TH - Open source - Discontinued.
hForth - Open source - Discontinued.
Hierarchical Music Specification Language - Commercial - Discontinued.
HS/FORTH - Commercial - Discontinued.
LMI Forth-83 - Commercial - Discontinued - Cross development tool that runs on top of UR/FORTH.
MiniForth - Open source - Discontinued.
MMS Forth - Commercial - Discontinued.
Modular Forth - Commercial - Discontinued.
OOF - Open source - Discontinued.
Portable Forth Environment - Open Source - Current
PowerForth - Commercial - Discontinued.
polyFORTH - Commercial - Discontinued.
Pigmy Forth - Open source.
TCOM - Freeware - Discontinued.
ThisForth - Open source - Discontinued.
TIMBRE - Freeware - Discontinued.
TURBO-Forth - Commercial - Discontinued.
UniForth - Commercial - Discontinued.
UR/Forth - Commercial - Discontinued.
WPForth - Commercial - Discontinued.
Zen - Open source - Discontinued.
4THCMP - Freeware - Discontinued.

A list of Forth implementations that run under WinOS/2

Forthmacs - Commercial - Discontinued.
ProForth - Commercial - Discontinued.
WinForth - Commercial - Discontinued.

A list of Forth implementations that run under Java

Delta Forth - Open source - Discontinued.
J2EE Forth - Open source - Discontinued.

A list of Forth implementations in JavaScript

wForth - Open source - Discontinued.

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

Starting Forth - Free tutorial in PDF format.

Links

FIG - Forth Interest Group
Forth resources on Taygeta.com - Outdated but extensive.

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

Raidfile - A DOS in-memory database.

Standards

ANS Forth - 1994 draft - Aka ANSI Forth.

Forth history

Invented by Charles H. Moore in 1968.

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 ==A list of DOS implementations of Forth==
+* [[Ale Forth]] - Freeware - Discontinued.
+* [[BBL]] - Freeware - Discontinued.
 * [[bigForth]] - Commercial - Discontinued.
 * [[C-Forth]] - Open Source - Discontinued.
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 * [[Golden Porcupine Forth]] - Shareware - Discontinued.
 * [[HENCE4TH]] - Open source - Discontinued.
+* [[hForth]] - Open source - Discontinued.
 * [[Hierarchical Music Specification Language]] - Commercial - Discontinued.
 * [[HS/FORTH]] - Commercial - Discontinued.
 * [[LMI Forth-83]] - Commercial - Discontinued - Cross development tool that runs on top of UR/FORTH.
+* [[MiniForth]] - Open source - Discontinued.
 * [[MMS Forth]] - Commercial - Discontinued.
 * [[Modular Forth]] - Commercial - Discontinued.
+* [[OOF]] - Open source - Discontinued.
 * [[Portable Forth Environment]] - Open Source - Current
 * [[PowerForth]] - Commercial - Discontinued.
 * [[polyFORTH]] - Commercial - Discontinued.
 * [http://pygmy.utoh.org/pygmyforth.html Pigmy Forth] - Open source.
+* [[TCOM]] - Freeware - Discontinued.
 * [[ThisForth]] - Open source - Discontinued.
+* [[TIMBRE]] - Freeware - Discontinued.
+* [[TURBO-Forth]] - Commercial - Discontinued.
+* [[UniForth]] - Commercial - Discontinued.
 * [[UR/Forth]] - Commercial - Discontinued.
+* [[WPForth]] - Commercial - Discontinued.
+* [[Zen]] - Open source - Discontinued.
+* [[4THCMP]] - Freeware - Discontinued.
 ==A list of Forth implementations that run under WinOS/2==
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 * [[WinForth]] - Commercial - Discontinued.
 ==A list of Forth implementations that run under Java==
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+* [[Delta Forth]] - Open source - Discontinued.
+* [[J2EE Forth]] - Open source - Discontinued.
 ==A list of Forth implementations in JavaScript==
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+* [[wForth]] - Open source - Discontinued.
 ==Publications==
 * [http://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1980-08 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.