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[Raymond Wiker]

> On 29 Apr 2016, at 21:10 , Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
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>> On Apr 29, 2016, at 3:01 PM, ben <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
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>> I liked Forth when it was still threaded.
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> ???
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> Base FORTH is not, in and of itself, threaded.  PolyFORTH was if memory serves.  Then again, creating a thread scheduler (cooperative scheduler) for FORTH is just a modest exercise for the programmer.

I'm guessing Ben means threaded as in "Threaded Interpretative Language", and not a concurrent programming language.

There are still plenty of Forth implementations based on threading (of words).