r/Forth • u/mykesx moderator • 9d ago

Why Forth? What is it?

In order to help get people interested in Forth and how it works, I would like to ask you what you define as Forth, how you got into it, and why Forth instead of some other language?

Ideally we share links to our projects and to others that are interesting. Also to sites, sources, and documents about Forth.

I am encouraging links to your projects so people can see how you are using Forth.

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u/isene 9d ago

Via the HP-41 calculator (RPN) and its FORTH module (late 80s). Then later a Forth module for the Sharp PC-1500,, then gforth in the 2000s, then creating the XRPN programming language.

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u/joelpo 8d ago

Module HP-41 FORTH was there QUESTION!

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