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by astrobe_ 867 days ago
> FORTH = because the machine Chuck Moore was using wouldn't accept a longer name; he wanted to call it "Fourth"

Additionally, he wanted to name it "Fourth" because it was targeting the fourth generation of computers [1] that featured the first hard disks (IIRC) - not because he thought of it as a fourth generation language.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computing_hardware_...