Forth
English
Etymology 1
Proper noun
Forth
- A river in Scotland that flows for about 47 km (29 miles) from The Trossachs through Stirling to the Firth of Forth on the North Sea.
- A sea area that covers the Firth of Forth
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From fourth, for "fourth-generation programming language"; the u was dropped because the IBM 1130 operating system limited filenames to five characters.
Proper noun
Forth
- An imperative, stack-based high-level programming language, used mostly in control applications.
- Postscript is a language in the Forth family of languages.