Jerry Avins <jyavins at Xerols.com> wrote:
>Phil Roberts, Jr. wrote:
>>>> Riddle (#2): Why is FORTH called FORTH?
>>>> --
>>>> Phil Roberts, Jr.
>>>> Feelings of Worthlessness and So-Called Cognitive Science
>>http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5476>>C is called C because it was intended to B, code that ran on the machine
>used for development.
Wasn't it a successor to BCPL ?
> Forth is called that because it came after
>something like Third, and Moore's system couldn't take 6-character
>names. If I'm so smart, how come I don't know why they named me
>Jeremiah?
Oh, I thought "Jerry" was short for "Geraldine."
