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Chuck Moore's Wonderful colorForth Programming Language and Operating System (colorforth.com)
5 points by jacquesm on Aug 24, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


Btw, Moore is looking for 3 million in VC for his 40+ core Forth chips - http://www.colorforth.com/GA.htm


It's more than a little ironic to complain about built-in obsolence when your website looks like it was designed in the first year of the web's existence.


never judge a book by its cover.

For that matter, PGs site looks like that as well.


Ok, I'll judge it by the fact that there's no link to a download or tutorial page.

... or reference documentation.

... or example applications.

... or a message board or irc channel or mailing list.

I still conclude that page was built broken. The language may not be, but I don't care to find out now.

For comparison, see http://www.ruby-lang.org. That is what a programming language's website should look like.


Forth has been pretty stable for the last - oh, 3 decades or so. Colorforth is a reasonably minor, but clever variation on the theme by the same guy that wrote the original.

By comparison 'ruby' is a spring chicken. Forth is being used to control just about everything you can think of on this planet, from cell phones to space shuttles.

Reference documentation ? Sure:

http://www.colorforth.com/forth.html

all of a language in one page

Sample applications & message boards ?

http://colorforth.net/




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