References and Interesting Information

Books

  • Brodie, Leo. 1987. Starting Forth
  • Brodie, Leo. 1984. Thinking Forth: A language and philosophy for solving problems
  • Noble, Julian. 1992. Scientific Forth: A modern language for scientific computing
  • Pountain, Dick. 1987. Object-oriented Forth: Implementation of data structure

Papers

  • Miller, George. 1956. “The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information”

Code

  • Childers, Charles. 2016. “Port of Retro’s combinator implementations to Forth” at https://gist.github.com/crcx/8060687
  • Kirby, Brent. 2002. “The Theory of Concatenative Combinators” at http://tunes.org/~iepos/joy.html
  • JonesForth - an implementation in literate ASM. https://github.com/kristopherjohnson/jonesforth

Interviews

  • “A Conversation with Manfred von Thun” at http://www.nsl.com/papers/interview.htm

Websites

  • Spiewak, Daniel. 2008. The Joy of Concatenative Languages. http://www.codecommit.com/blog/cat/the-joy-of-concatenative-languages-part-1
  • http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ForthLanguage
  • http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ForthVsLisp
  • http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ForthPostscriptRelationship
  • http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExampleForthCode
  • http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ForthObjects
  • http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ForthMacro
  • http://www.forth.com/resources/evolution/evolve_0.html

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