Forth
Description
Imperative, hierarchical stack based language with an almost quasi-religious following.
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.
- LMI Forth-83 - Commercial - Discontinued - Cross development tool that runs on top of UR/FORTH.
- 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.