RETRO-DOCUMENT(1)

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okay bestie, meet retro-document β€” the page describes it as β€œa modern, pragmatic forth development system.” It lives in the General Commands Manual, and the manual-page title is RETRO-DOCUMENT(1). And yes, forth is lowercase right there in the NAME line β€” we are not touching it, iykyk. πŸ’…

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

The whole synopsis is literally just this:

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πŸ¦‹ DESCRIPTION πŸ¦‹

RETRO is a modern, pragmatic Forth drawing influences from many sources. It’s clean, elegant, tiny, and easy to grasp and adapt to various uses β€” highkey iconic, no cap. 🌈

Then the page says it is a tool for generating a listing of the descriptions and stack comments for all standard word used in a source file. It will write output to stdout. That’s the whole vibe: descriptions, stack comments, a source file, and stdout getting the moment. 🫢

πŸ‘‘ AUTHORS πŸ‘‘

Charles Childress β€” <crc@forthworks.com> πŸ’–


That’s the whole page, bestie β€” footer energy is Debian, May 2019, and it’s giving periodt. πŸ’…βœ¨

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