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Thursday, May 26, 2011
Forth...
Here's a discussion about Forth, a programming language blast-from-the-past for me. There was, in the late '70s, a period of time when Forth was the only high-level langauge for microcomputers that actually worked reasonably well for real-world projects. I used it fairly extensively on Z80s, and a bit less on several different Intel single-chip solutions. I liked it a lot - it was very light-wieght, lent itself very well to a serial terminal development environment, and let me build up a library of “stuff” that I could use as tools in different environments. Turbo Pascal was the first practicable alternative I found to Forth, and that wasn't useful in embedded systems. Forth and assembler were the only languages I ever used in that world...
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