I believe that Jack Woehr also wrote a forth interpreter for VM/CMS
sometime ago.
McKown, John wrote:
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I remember EEs at a prior company using Forth years ago. They used to
"extend" the language set by "adding" their own instructions.
Then they
couldn't remember "how" their own instruction worked (these were EEs
doing this stuff not software guys...../me waits for the
verbal abuse to
come in), so rewrote it for other code later on. Seemed very powerful
but didn't see much use (at least at that company). I'm not
surprised it
didn't really go anywhere.
Not go anywhere? It was not designed as a general purpose language.
IIRC, the creator created it to control telescopes. I think it has a
larger audience in the embedded or process control world. I've used it,
just for learning purposes, and found it very interesting. I even
created a forth-like intepreter that ran on MVS TSO.
Do a Google search on "forth" and you'll get a lot of hits.
--
John McKown
Senior Systems Programmer
HealthMarkets
Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage
Administrative Services Group
Information Technology
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DJ
V/Soft
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