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-==== the forth programming language ====
+==== the FORTH programming language ====
-Forth is a stack based procedural programming language. [[wp>Forth_(programming_language)]]
+Forth is a stack based procedural programming language, able to be found (or installed) on microprocessors, embedded systems, and personal computers. It encourages an itterative, exploratory style of programming, defining and redefining  'words' as programmes take shape.
-Forth implementations mentioned in the libarynth
+===Forth implementations ===
   * [[Packet Forth]]
   * [[amforth]]
+  * [[open firmware]]
+  * gforth (aka GNU Forth) > http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/
+  * implementations  for a wide range of hardware can be found at http://www.forth.org/compilers.html
+  * jonesforth  -- heavily commented/literate -> http://www.annexia.org/forth
-reading
+===reading===
+  * [[wp>Forth_(programming_language)]]
   * "thinking forth" > http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/
+  * The Forth Interest Group (FIG) > http://forth.org
-tutorials
+===tutorials===
   * http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Forth_Lessons