RETRO 12

RETRO is a concatenative programming language with roots in Forth. Designed to be compact, learnable, and easy to adapt to specific needs, it has been developed and refined through continual use by a small community over more than a decade. Forth is a stack based programming language created in the late 1960\'s by Chuck Moore. Over the intervening decades it has evolved through use, with many dialects along the way. The Retro dialect was created in the late 1990\'s, and has been continually developed and supported for over 15 years. It is a structured, imperative stack-based language with modern facilities including quotations and reflection. RETRO 12 is the latest generation of the language. It has been rewritten from the ground up and is smaller, cleaner, and better structured than previous releases. Due to the extensive changes it is not compatible with code written for older releases. It features: - code editor - listener interface for quick interactions - file manager - console output - optional keyboard enhancement with quick access to numbers and symbols - code is extracted from embedded Markdown blocks allowing easy mixing of code and commentary for a literate programming style - latest version of the RETRO language - embedded glossary of words - several examples