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Awk: Aho, Weinberger & Kernighan [0] Tcl: (an embeddable) Tool Command Language [1] Forth: FOURTH as in "4th generation software", "successor to 3rd generatio
by kbr2000 3y ago
Awk: Aho, Weinberger & Kernighan [0]
Tcl: (an embeddable) Tool Command Language [1]
Forth: FOURTH as in "4th generation software", "successor to 3rd generation compile-link-go languages", or "software for 4rd generation hardware", but IBM 1130 naming cut it short one char [2]
PostScript: after the postfix notation it uses and because it was to be the last thing that happened to an image before it was printed [3]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWK
[1] https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Tcl+vs%2E+TCL https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Tcl+vs%2E+TCL
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language)
[3] https://spectrum.ieee.org/adobe-postscript https://spectrum.ieee.org/adobe-postscript