At 03:20 AM 6/19/98 -0400, you wrote:
No, Charles Moore created FORTH as a notation system for teaching
mathematics -- it just happened that when the notation system was
converted to a programming language that it became handy for such
things as controlling telescopes.
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Are you sure you're not confusing it with Ken Iverson and APL? He
created it as a mathematical teaching language.
Joe