6 Invaluable Free Forth Books | Linux Today

6 Invaluable Free Forth Books

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Steve Emms
Jun 18, 2013

The focus of this article is to select some of the finest free Forth books which help newcomers to Forth to quickly master this language. All of the texts here come with our recommendation, each offering unique insights. So get reading (and learning).

Forth is an imperative stack-based programming language, and a member of the class of extensible interactive languages. It was created by Charles Moore in 1970 to control telescopes in observatories using small computers. Because of its roots, Forth stresses efficiency, compactness, flexible and efficient hardware/software interaction.

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