Is Forth for real?

[Elizabeth D Rather]

"Cameron Laird" <claird at lairds.us> wrote in message 
news:1v44c3-geo.ln1 at lairds.us...
> In article <pan.2006.02.12.15.11.04.739314 at REMOVETHIScyber.com.au>,
> Steven D'Aprano  <steve at REMOVETHIScyber.com.au> wrote:
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>>on the web for each language. By comparison, even Forth gives 13 million
>>plus hits, and who uses Forth?
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> The programmers of, among other things, the FedEx bar-code reader,
> the Sun boot loader, and parts of the Space Shuttle.

We have several thousand customers, although we don't hear from them enough 
to know how active they are.  Most of them are doing embedded systems (such 
as the FedEx package tracker), although there are also quite a few doing 
Windows apps.

A lot of our embedded work is for aerospace and government customers, plus a 
number in the private sector.  All the DirecTV uplink antennas are 
controlled by one of our systems made by VertexRSI, 
http://www.tripointglobal.com/vertexrsi.html.  Another really neat customer 
is Sunrise Systems, http://www.sunrisesystems.com/index.htm.  They make 
moving displays, and are working on one for one of the rebuilt World Trade 
Center bldgs, one to be installed in Switzerland next month, and something 
for Disney World.

Open Firmware has already been mentioned, and I should add that IBM's 
high-end servers also use it.  I teach Forth courses there once or twice a 
year, and have trained a couple hundred engineers in IBM alone.

You can get more info on our web site www.forth.com, including a link to a 
paper presenting a history of Forth.

Cheers,
Elizabeth

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