Let’s start right off with a controversial claim: Forth is the hacker’s programming language. Coding in Forth is a little bit like writing assembly language, interactively, for a strang… ...

For me, it was my fourth programming language, after BASIC, PDP-8 assembly language, and PDP-8 binary (yes, I wrote binary code so I could toggle it in on the front panel of an early minicomputer).

Versions of the Forth programming language compiler for ARM Cortex-M and TI MSP430 cores are available free of charge from MPE of Southampton. According to MPE, this has “lowered the entry cost to ...