Forth

Forth, invented by Chuck Moore, was the first stack-based language. Forth supports a Concatenative style of programming, although it makes use of Parsing words and mutable state more than subsequent languages.

Interesting implementations:

• RetroForth
• PygmyForth
• gForth
• BigForth
• colorForth
• Openfirmware
• SwiftForth and SwiftX
• Win32Forth

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Two classic texts by Leo Brodie:

• Starting Forth - online edition
• Thinking Forth

Forth implementation written in Literate Programming style:

• jonesforth

A wiki about Forth:

• http://www.forthfreak.net/

There is a #forth IRC channel on Freenode.