grt@twitch.UUCP ( G.R.Tomasevich) (07/31/87)
Both languages are used by a small group of diehards but are not dead (yet, at least, judging from this group and the TIME magazine essay). Esperanto was supposed to be a universal language, while FORTH can replace compilers and assemblers. You could write a UNIX system in FORTH, including the command shell, say ksh or csh or whatever you prefer. However, FORTH itself would already provide the functionality of command interpretation; we could call it 'fsh' for FORTH shell. There has been discussion here of multitasking FORTH; does it resemble UNIX at all? -- George Tomasevich, ihnp4!twitch!grt AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ