Description
of Forth |
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By those in attendance: extensible verb-only syntax rpn flow of thought explicit stacks virtually no syntax compile / runtime distinction dictionary data structure economy explicit virtual machine incrementally compiled interpretive factoring provability and testability |
By Skip: a way of thinking about thinking (Papert) (like Lisp) a way of thinking about computing (Minsky) (like Lisp) a way of thinking about the design of computers (Moore) a way of thinking about designing programs (Wirth) a general purpose programming language a way of controlling hardware |