Description of Forth

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