Edit: Forth

Forth, invented by [[Chuck Moore]], was the first stack-based language. Forth supports a [[Concatenative language|Concatenative]] style of programming, although it makes use of [[Parsing words]] and mutable state more than subsequent languages. Interesting implementations: - [[http://www.retroforth.org/|RetroForth]] - [[http://pygmy.utoh.org/|PygmyForth]] - [[http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/gforth.html|gForth]] - [[http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/bigforth.html|BigForth]] - [[http://www.colorforth.com/|colorForth]] - [[http://www.openfirmware.info/Open_Firmware|Openfirmware]] - [[http://www.forth.com/|SwiftForth and SwiftX]] - [[http://www.win32forth.sourceforge.net/|Win32Forth]] Two classic texts by [[Leo Brodie]]: - [[http://www.forth.com/starting-forth/|Starting Forth - online edition]] - [[http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/|Thinking Forth]] Forth implementation written in [[Literate Programming]] style: - [[http://www.annexia.org/forth|jonesforth]] A wiki about Forth: - [[http://www.forthfreak.net/]] There is a %#forth% IRC channel on Freenode.

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