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I'm sure Mr. Moore feels vindicated that the fruits of his design work have powered humanity's first comet landing ever. Still, it's telling of the industry's

by jng 12y ago

I'm sure Mr. Moore feels vindicated that the fruits of his design work have powered humanity's first comet landing ever. Still, it's telling of the industry's regard for Forth that the manufacturer itself manages to misspell the language as "Fourth" in the chip's official product page.

cbd1984 12y ago
To be fair, Moore originally wanted the language to be called "Fourth": > The file holding the interpreter was labeled FORTH, for 4th (next) generation software - but the operating system restricted file names to 5 characters. http://www.colorforth.com/HOPL.html http://www.colorforth.com/HOPL.html It was the OS for the IBM 1130: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1130 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1130 Because it was the cheapest computer IBM had at the time, it got used by a lot of young pioneers in their salad days.
lbruder 12y ago
Well, it was the original name Forth was going to have. Just that the OS it was built on allowed only five character file names...