Elizabeth D. Rather
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Forth is unique among programming languages in that its development and proliferation has been a grass-roots effort unsupported by any major corporate or academic sponsors. Originally conceived and developed by a single individual, its later development progressed under two significant influences: professional programmers who developed tools to solve application problems and then commercialized them, and the interests of hobbyists concerned with free distribution of Forth. These influences have produced a language markedly different from traditional programming languages.
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The authors give a historical review of the evolution of the Forth l anguage from its beginnings as a simple interpreter (“Chuck Moore's programming language”) in the early 1960s to the FORTH-79 and FORTH-83 standards of today. The paper provides a glowing account of Forth's evolution, successes, and contributions, but touches only briefly on some of the concerns raised by its detractors, such as the lack of an explicit typing mechanism, operator overloading, and other classical program language design and software engineering issues. Although weakened by its one-sided approach to Forth, the paper does provide an easily read history of the evolution of a unique language and describes the directions in which it is expected to evolve.
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