With all the advantages, it is unfortunate that Forth lost out to C language over the years and have been reduced to a niche. Per ChatGPT: due to C’s broader appeal, standardization, and support ecosystem likely contributed to its greater … Read more
While this site doesn’t provide GIF conversion at the moment, you can still do it yourself with the help of asciinema GIF generator utility – agg. Once you have it installed, generate a GIF with the following command: agg https://asciinema.org/a/Lbxa2w9R5IbaJqW3INqVrbX8E … Read more
Forth: The programming language that writes itself: The Web Page Charles H. Moore and the pursuit of simplicity. Author: Dave GauerCreated: 2023-02-02 Updated: 2024-12-22 Note: This page is my personal journey to discover Forth and put it in the context … Read more
Introduction This small ebook is here to teach you a programming language called Forth. Forth is a language unlike most others. It’s not functional or object oriented, it doesn’t have type-checking, and it basically has zero syntax. It was written … Read more
Open Source Announcement This month marks the 🎈🎈🎈 40th anniversary of ChipWits! 🎈🎈🎈 To celebrate, we’re releasing all of the original Mac and Commodore 64 FORTH source code (or as much as we could recover) as open source! You can … Read more
The Forth Methodology of Charles Moore by Jeff Fox 12/09/01 Forth Methodology Applied to Programming: 1. BEGIN BEGIN BEGIN Identify and reject your illusions and ideas that don’t help. 2. Identify and reject the non-problems blocking your problem or keep … Read more
The Forth Deck miniA portable Forth computer with a discrete CPU The Forth Deck mini is a housed version of the My4TH computer board with an additional keyboard and display. A built-in rechargeable battery makes it portable and independent of … Read more
…but is it the story of Forth? Enjoy. ——————————————————— A Forth Story Allen Cekorich Walnut Creek, California Forth Dimensions, July/August 1995 In 1975, I was fresh out of college with a bachelors degree in physics and a need to find … Read more
Forth: The programming language that writes itself: The Web Page Charles H. Moore and the pursuit of simplicity. Author: Dave GauerCreated: 2023-02-02 Updated: 2023-07-16 Note: This page is my personal journey to discover Forth and put it in the context … Read more
Dave’s Forth Talk 2023 Charles H. Moore and the pursuit of simplicity. A talk by Dave Gauer, 2023. Made with minslides, which I made for this talk. Use the J and K keys to go forward and backward. You can … Read more