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It's not an accident! Chuck Moore was a student of John McCarthy before joining the industry. Forth was created when Chunk applied his knowledge of Lisp to th
by samatman 4y ago
It's not an accident! Chuck Moore was a student of John McCarthy before joining the industry.
Forth was created when Chunk applied his knowledge of Lisp to the problem of maintaining a personal library of punched cards which were reusable on whatever weird computer he needed to run them on next.
- carapace 4y agoIs that... do you have a reference for that? (Not challenging, just seeking more knowledge.)
- samatman 4y agoHere you go: http://www.forth.org/POL.pdf http://www.forth.org/POL.pdf Great read, highly recommended. I'd go on but this is my second drop of POL in this thread.
- carapace 4y agoCheers! A book about Forth, by Chuck Moore, that I haven't read already! Today is a good day. (Someone has posted it and it's reached the front page now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33180796 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33180796 )