Is Forth still in use? If so, how and where? [closed]
It’s still in use by people like Apple and Sun – take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware.
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Examples of very concise Forth applications? [closed]
You need to understand that Chuck Moore is a little different than you and me. He was trained in an era when mainframe computers consisted of 16 KB or its equivalent in core memory, and he was able to do quite a lot of things with the computers of the time. Perhaps the biggest success for … Read more
What are the primitive Forth operators? [closed]
This thread covers your exact question. Here is a soup-to-nuts implementation with complete documentation. I wrote a subroutine threaded Forth targeting 68K when I was in college. I defined the runtime environment and dictionary format, then wrote some C code that boot strapped a Macintosh application that loaded a default dictionary, populated some I/O vectors … Read more