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On Sunday, 26 December 2021 at 19:22:58 UTC, Paul Rubin wrote:
> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mai...@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:=20
> > Since it was 30 years in developing, I would not dismiss QBasic...
> Don't forget Forth! It was used on many space projects.=20
>=20
> https://web.archive.org/web/19990125085748/http://forth.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Interesting. I didn't realise there had been so many projects in Forth. I s=
tarted to learn /use Forth at one point, as it looked like we (Matra Marcon=
i Space) might be forced to use the RTX2010 as it was one of very few space=
 qualified processors with hardware floating point support. In the end we u=
sed the MA31750, with Ada, instead.