[Novalug] G's

[Michael Henry]

On 03/31/2010 05:04 PM, Ed James wrote:
> "Forth-generation language"
>
> *too ashamed to put my name here*

No need for shame. The inventor of Forth originally saw it that
way[1]:

"""
Forth is so named because in 1968 "[t]he file holding the
interpreter was labeled FOURTH, for 4th (next) generation
software — but the IBM 1130 operating system restricted file
names to 5 characters."[7] Moore saw Forth as a successor to
compile-link-go third-generation programming languages, or
software for "fourth generation" hardware, not a
fourth-generation programming language as the term has come to
be used.
"""

Michael Henry

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_%28programming_language%29