Re: Influences on Moore & other Qs


Alex McDonald wrote:
The Forth language entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth is
getting another update. I've read
http://www.forth.com/resources/evolution/index.html, and that's
provoked some questions for clf.

What languages influenced Moore during his development of Forth;
specifically, did he model Forth on, or was he influenced by exposure
to, any then-extant language?

You may find Chuck's draft for HOPL II informative:

http://colorforth.com/HOPL.html

He mentions Fortran, Algol, Lisp and even APL as influences (some
negative, some positive), and also the Burroughs 5500 assembly language
for DUP DROP and SWAP.

Ian

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