What Was Your First Programming Language?

[Paul Berger (Canada)]

(07-06-2015 10:35 PM)Bill (Smithville NJ) Wrote:  [
It makes since that Forth would be used to program a robotic arm. If I remember correctly, Forth was originally created to control a telescope.

Bill
Smithville, NJ

Yes Charles Moore created it to run radio telescopes. It was supposed to be named "Fourth" for fourth generation software but the IBM 1130 he was using only accepted 5 character file names, so says the forward Moore wrote for Leo Brodie's "Starting FORTH" which is one of the best books for learning Forth.