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4FORTH

Forth is the quintessential minimalist programming language. Parsing Forth is nothing more than extracting tokens separated by whitespace. There is no interpretation of formulas and everything is a discrete word operating on the stack. Programs are a collection of functions, called words, that are compiled, function by function, to an ever expanding memory space known as the dictionary. Words are executed when encountered, or compiled to the dictionary when defined. This is in contrast to languages like Python, C++, or Java, which require sophisticated parsers and compilers and a rigid structure, and are well-abstracted from the hardware ...