The FORTH Programming Language for Control Systems: Potential Advantages

Abstract

When working with the control system¹, it was found that the FORTH language offered advantages over:

BASIC — in terms of speed of control action

machine code — in terms of program development/testing time.

Furthermore, in common circumstances where program/alterations have to be made to cope with plant, process or design changes, FORTH is less prone to errors that may occur when adapting machine code.