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Reference
Rather, E.D., Colburn, D.R., Moore, C.H., "The evolution of Forth, with transcript of presentation", pp. 625-670, in Bergin, T.J., Jr., Gibson, R.G., Jr. (ed.), History of Programming Languages-II, New York, ACM Press, 1996. Google
627 ;;Quote: Forth was designed to replace the "vast hierarchy" of software tools with a simple, natural programmer-to-Forth interface
630 ;;Quote: despite primitive on-line computers and Forth's oddness, Forth can be more productive than fully supported mainframes
636 ;;Quote: can bootstrap Forth on native hardware with 4K kernal and 40 pages of Forth; used metacompiler to compile the kernal
639 ;;Quote: a non-preemptive task scheduler may be used for real-time systems because they are dominated by I/O instead of computational tasks
639 ;;Quote: use i*j/k for efficient calibration, scaling, and rational approximation; e.g., multiply by pi with an error of 10^-7
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