On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 09:42 PM, Jerry Gaffke wrote:
Read "Threaded Interpretive Languages" soon after it came out in 1981.
Wow, it is so much fun to see the future in retrospect. I found a readable copy on Archive.org and glossed over the introduction.?
I recognized the cover artwork from Byte Magazine. Had not seen the book. But reading the intro was the same things that were absolutely futuristic when I first read similar articles. And now that future is so far in the past, but still evokes the inner feelings of the unknown and marvelous things that will be possible in the future.
I may read some more, as looks like something I may have wanted to read back then. I fiddled in Forth a little. But could not or did not know how to save anything that I did in the interactive mode. So did not do much with it.?
Someone at the computer club I belonged to had used forth to create a controller that would calculate the volume of liquid at any level of an irregular shaped tank. He used it in a customer controller he designed for Cal Fire for dropping known amounts of fire retardant from whatever the large fire fighter planes were at the time.?
Also, the Sun workstations programmed their disk boot loader in a version of Forth.
Tom, wb6b
