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Forth was created by Charles H. Moore in the 70s.
Forth was created by Charles H. Moore in the 70s. It is an imperative,
stack-based language and programming environment, being used in projects
such as Open Firmware. It's also used by NASA.
Note: This article focuses predominantly on the Gforth implementation of
Forth, but most of what is written here should work elsewhere.
```forth
\ Forth is a low level interactive programming language which is comprised of
\ *words*. These are Forth subroutines which are executed once you press
\ <Cr>, from left to right.
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. \ 9 ok
\ A few more examples of arithmetic
6 7 * . \ 42 ok
1360 23 - . \ 1337 ok
12 12 / . \ 1 ok
6 7 * . \ 42 ok
1360 23 - . \ 1337 ok
12 12 / . \ 1 ok
\ ----------------------------- Stack Manipulation -----------------------------