Forth

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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.

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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.
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A sea area that covers the Firth of Forth

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A village in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9453).
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A village in Central Coast council area and the City of Devonport, northern Tasmania, Australia.

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An imperative, stack-based high-level concatenative programming language, used mostly in control applications.
PostScript is another concatenative language similar to the Forth family of languages.

Etymology

From fourth, for "fourth-generation programming language"; the u was dropped because the IBM 1130 operating system limited filenames to five characters.

fort · A fortified defensive structure stationed with troops.Fort · A surname.forth · Forward in time, place or degree.

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.

forthcoming · Approaching or about to take place.fortnight · A period of 2 weeks.fortress · A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification,…

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