I spent a bit of time trying to find some list of words that formed a rational forth kernel, around which the rest of a useful dictionary could be defined. No such luck. It appears there are competing thoughts on what could be called foundational.
@slott56 My approach is building the ”core” stack words, interpret, and such. I’m going to leave blocks/editor that seem to be extra. As far as I know, there is no standard FORTH. I’m just going by the Brodie books which I consider canon.
@slott56 There is also something called “PygmyFORTH” which is written in Python nowadays (DOS originally), but I don’t want to just do what someone else did.
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