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Re:Starting Forth - After yesterday's Prolog post, another a... by misterm on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @04:54PM (#1980787)
Is anyone still using this in a production environment? I don't think I've ever seen a language like this one before.
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Re:Starting Forth - After yesterday's Prolog post, another a... by wnoise on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @12:56AM (#1982063)
Do you consider boot ROMs production environments?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware

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Re:Starting Forth - After yesterday's Prolog post, another a... by silentbicycle on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @07:50PM (#1981355)
FreeBSD's boot loader uses a dialect of forth.

Forth makes MUCH more sense in an embedded context, IMHO.

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Re:Starting Forth - After yesterday's Prolog post, another a... by VladRussian on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @08:26PM (#1981452)
>Forth makes MUCH more sense in an embedded context, IMHO.

Forth is just unbeatable in an embedded context. Minimal porting of a few basic words and you're up and running with fully functional environment you can adjust on-the-fly.

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