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From: grt@twitch.UUCP ( G.R.Tomasevich)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: What natural language does FORTH resemble?
Message-ID: <751@twitch.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 31-Jul-87 08:22:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: twitch.751
Posted: Fri Jul 31 08:22:57 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 2-Aug-87 03:51:54 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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Keywords: Esperanto, UNIX

Both languages are used by a small group of diehards but are not dead (yet,
at least, judging from this group and the TIME magazine essay).  Esperanto was
supposed to be a universal language, while FORTH can replace compilers and
assemblers.  You could write a UNIX system in FORTH, including the command
shell, say ksh or csh or whatever you prefer.  However, FORTH itself would
already provide the functionality of command interpretation; we could call
it 'fsh' for FORTH shell.  There has been discussion here of multitasking
FORTH; does it resemble UNIX at all?
-- 
	George Tomasevich, ihnp4!twitch!grt
	AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ