An Introduction to Forth, a Quirky Yet Amazing Language

Alpheus Madsen

Saturday 9 May 2015 from 09:00 to 09:45

Talk in English - US at OpenWest 2015
Track Name: SB 263 - Other Languages
Short URL: https://joind.in/talk/c1547 (QR-Code (opens in new window))

An Introduction to Forth, a Quirky Yet Amazing Language

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Anonymous at 19:12 on 9 May 2015

Very fun, thank you. I would have like to have seen less about extending the compiler with a new flow control construct and more about how it scales up quickly from hardware level to high level.

1 motor-adr ! ( starts motor by storing a one bit at the motor address -- very low level )

quickly becomes

motor-adr step ( steps the motor one step )

then, later

10 degrees motor-adr step ( turns the motor about 10 degrees )

and so on