Forth

since unknown year (earliest usage recorded on this site was 1977)

Forth is a structured, imperative, reflective, stack-based computer programming language and programming environment.

A procedural programming language without type checking, Forth features both interactive execution of commands (making it suitable as a shell for systems that lack a more formal operating system) and the ability to compile sequences of commands for later execution.

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mnulli

brucehoult

avowkind

shawnr

AndyC

undoingemptyvoid

boutell

spookylukey

thraxil

bittercoder

jtauber

Kanru

mnulli - 29 years

brucehoult - 43 years

avowkind - 17 years

shawnr - 4 years

AndyC - 41 years

undoingemptyvoid - 2 years

boutell - 1 years

spookylukey - 32 years

dl - 8 years

thraxil - 23 years

bittercoder - 2 years

jtauber - 17 years

Kanru - 16 years

mnulli

1977–2005

2005 "so far" :-). Started with DECUS FORTH for the PDP-11. A friend and I made a 6502 version, used it quite a bit internally. Moved to fig FORTH when it was clear that was "the future". Most recently used for "bare-board" diags on PPC systems.

brucehoult

1983–

Have used a variety of FORTH-like languages, and even created my own. Started with STOIC on a VAX in 1983, and quite a lot of Postscript from 1985 onwards.

avowkind

1984–2000

I spent 10 years programming Forth full time, I love this language and its the only one I could recreate from scratch after the apocolypse. Some of those programs are still running. Last bite was Y2K validating older Forth stuff.

shawnr

1984–1987

This was the second language I started playing with on my Commodore Vic 20. This was all kid-coder experiments, nothing fancy.

AndyC

1985–

Mucked about with it on the BBC Micro.

undoingemptyvoid

1985–1986

First part of my FORTH life was simply Leo's book until I bought and typed in the FIG Assembly listing for a FORTH interpreter. It was a hobby language and I almost got a job somewhere with it, telecom programming company.

boutell

1986

The only decently fast, multithreaded language on the Sanyo MBC-550. Alas, I wasn't quite ready, but it prepared me for PostScript.

spookylukey

1994–

1998–2005

thraxil

2003–

bittercoder

2008–2009

Started teaching myself Forth, mostly after learning about Factor (which I learnt at the same time). Definitely mind bending, though I can't say I ever felt particulary profficient in the language. Have not returned to it for a good year or so.

jtauber

2009–

Only recently started getting in to Forth. It stretches your mind like LISP does for exactly the opposite reasons.

Kanru

2010–

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wolfram

Used the MUF (Multi User Forth) dialect many moons ago for MUCK/MUD programming. Happy days...

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