Forth Clerihews

Chuck Moore
Hated the Standard's Core.
He denounced it near the Presidio.
Jeff sells the video.

Alternative:
Charles H. Moore, acknowledging that some programs must loop,
Gave Forth BEGIN WHILE REPEAT AGAIN UNTIL FOR NEXT DO LOOP ?DO +LOOP

[1X VERSION: REC
URSION.]

Elizabeth D. Rather
Pleaded: "Please, please, PLEASE cut the blather!"
What provoked her groan
Were some Usenet articles Re: POSTPONE.

In c.l.f. Wil Baden
Often gets his blade in.
He writes as Neil Bawd
So no one thinks he's Gawd.

Alternative:
Wil Baden
(rhymes with Dr. Glen Haydon)
occasionally writes as Neil Bawd
(rhymes with God).

For John Rible
- This is no libel -
Attending FORML
Is normal.

Leo Brodie
Was no mere roadie.
It took more than an inkling
To write Starting and Thinking.

When Frank C. Sergeant,
With cmForth ardent,
Made Pygmy Forth minimal,
It wasn't subliminal.

Alternative:
If Frank C. Sergeant,
A minimalist ardent,
Married Windows and Pygmy,
It would be bigamy.

Bruce R. McFarling,
Once Ohio's darling,
Chose to pursue Forth
In a hemisphere -north.

Jenny Brien
gave up trying
to be Jack - because she would
test all things and hold fast to what is good.

Leonard F. Zettel
In fine fettle
Wrote big.4th in ANS Standard.
Let it not be gerrymandered.

Thomas Zimmer
Could have made F-PC slimmer.
But if the size of Win32Forth grates,
Blame it on Gates.

The mother of Marlin Ouverson
Tried hard to improve her son.
He got the better of her
By becoming an editor.

Professor Julian V. Noble
Had a vision global:
Wouldn't it be terrific,
If Forth were Scientific?

"jax" Woehr
Hadn't a care.
Wherever the Future headed,
It would be Embedded.

Jeff Fox
Likes this about clocks:
Isn't it swell,
They're parallel?

Dr. C. H. Ting
Caught the Forth thing.
That was then.
This is Zen.

Mitch Bradley
Serves Forth gladly.
Much of his loot
Derives from OpenBoot.

To Philip Preston
I put the question:
When does Forth in Java
Become Kavakava?

Quoth Michael Coughlin:
"Forth's in a coffin."
He thought some books
Would improve its looks.

John Passaniti
Considered it a pity.
Forth had most slipped
By not heeding PostScript.

Leo Wong
Treats Forth like a song.
Is that why he's driven
To get himself shriven?

Alternative:
To Leo Wong's tin ear,
Attribute his dull career.
Never a Forth master,
He also failed as poetaster.

Michael Ham
Disliked SPAM.
Lest anyone be mistaken,
He truly hated bacon.

Jerry Avins
Is counted among the Forth mavens.
As there are very few,
He merits a clerihew.

Leo Wong hello@albany.net