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Forth is a programming language that was designed with simplicity and ease of execution on resource-limited machines in mind. It was invented by Charles Moore for his own personal use in the 1960s, and subsequently became popular all over the world.
Forth is a stack-based language, which means that the environment keeps track of a big ol' stack which you are constantly pushing and popping to/from in order to get anything done. One advantage to this is the use of postfix notation and avoiding the need for parentheses; for example the program
5 6 7 + * .loads the three numbers onto the stack, adds the top two (6+7), and then multiplies this by 5, then finally uses the
. command to
print out the result.
The programs you submit should be in a single file called
proj.fs. I will run your code on the CS Linux environment,
using the command
gforth proj.fs
Be sure to issue the bye command at the end of your
program!!