<s>
STOIC	B-Language
(	O
Stack-Oriented	O
Interactive	O
Compiler	O
)	O
is	O
a	O
1970s	O
programming	O
language	O
,	O
a	O
variant	O
of	O
Forth	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
STOIC	B-Language
started	O
out	O
at	O
the	O
MIT	O
and	O
Harvard	O
Biomedical	O
Engineering	O
Centre	O
in	O
Boston	O
,	O
(	O
part	O
of	O
the	O
Health	O
,	O
Science	O
and	O
Technology	O
Division	O
)	O
and	O
was	O
written	O
in	O
the	O
mid	O
1970s	O
by	O
Jonathan	O
Sachs	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Jonathan	O
Sachs	O
went	O
on	O
to	O
be	O
the	O
principal	O
programmer	O
of	O
Lotus	O
Development	O
and	O
wrote	O
the	O
first	O
version	O
of	O
Lotus	B-Application
1-2-3	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
original	O
version	O
of	O
STOIC	B-Language
was	O
written	O
on	O
a	O
Data	B-Device
General	I-Device
Nova	I-Device
minicomputer	O
and	O
cross-assembled	O
for	O
the	O
8080	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
STOIC	B-Language
came	O
with	O
its	O
own	O
primitive	O
but	O
effective	O
file	O
system	O
,	O
and	O
could	O
be	O
booted	O
up	O
with	O
little	O
preliminary	O
work	O
on	O
any	O
8080-based	O
microprocessor	B-Architecture
with	O
24K	O
of	O
memory	O
and	O
a	O
Teletype	O
machine	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
After	O
the	O
source	O
was	O
released	O
into	O
the	O
public	O
domain	O
,	O
the	O
system	O
was	O
subsequently	O
modified	O
to	O
run	O
under	O
CP/M	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
STOIC	B-Language
was	O
said	O
at	O
the	O
time	O
to	O
be	O
conceptually	O
similar	O
to	O
FORTH	B-Application
in	O
the	O
use	O
of	O
an	O
extensible	O
vocabulary	O
of	O
"	O
words	O
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
STOIC	B-Language
is	O
actually	O
a	O
rational	O
,	O
and	O
more	O
consistent	O
,	O
dialect	O
of	O
FORTH	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
source	O
,	O
and	O
documentation	O
,	O
was	O
distributed	O
for	O
many	O
years	O
by	O
the	O
CP/M	B-Application
Users	O
Group	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
a	O
practical	O
development	O
system	O
,	O
it	O
compared	O
favourably	O
with	O
contemporary	O
implementations	O
of	O
FORTH	B-Application
,	O
and	O
went	O
on	O
to	O
be	O
used	O
extensively	O
for	O
the	O
development	O
of	O
applications	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
portable	O
version	O
written	O
in	O
C	O
was	O
placed	O
in	O
the	O
public	O
domain	O
and	O
also	O
distributed	O
by	O
the	O
CP/M	B-Application
Users	O
Group	O
(	O
UK	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
STOIC	B-Language
,	O
unlike	O
other	O
FORTH	B-Application
variants	O
,	O
was	O
integrated	O
with	O
the	O
VMS	B-Operating_System
I/O	O
and	O
system	O
services	O
rather	O
than	O
using	O
the	O
FORTH	B-Application
disk	O
I/O	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
STOIC	B-Language
supported	O
double	O
precision	O
floating	O
point	O
operations	O
using	O
a	O
stack	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
STOIC	B-Language
was	O
originally	O
written	O
by	O
Jonathan	O
Sachs	O
in	O
1975	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
different	O
program	O
named	O
LSE	O
was	O
written	O
by	O
Robert	O
Goeke	O
,	O
which	O
incorporated	O
some	O
of	O
the	O
ideas	O
of	O
STOIC	B-Language
(	O
an	O
early	O
version	O
may	O
have	O
been	O
called	O
STOIC	B-Language
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
An	O
autotooled	B-Application
variant	O
of	O
LSE	O
,	O
(	O
Laboratory	O
Software	O
Environment	O
)	O
,	O
is	O
maintained	O
by	O
John	O
Doty	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
One	O
version	O
of	O
STOIC	B-Language
is	O
noted	O
as	O
being	O
"	O
Stack	O
Oriented	O
Interpretive	O
Compiler	O
"	O
,	O
but	O
it	O
is	O
unclear	O
which	O
is	O
which	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
STOICAL	O
(	O
STack	O
Oriented	O
Interactive	O
Compiler	O
Adapted	O
to	O
Linux	O
)	O
was	O
inspired	O
by	O
STOIC	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
the	O
early	O
1980s	O
there	O
was	O
an	O
attempt	O
to	O
reincarnate	O
STOIC	B-Language
by	O
Ernest	O
E	O
.	O
Bergmann	O
in	O
a	O
language	O
dubbed	O
PISTOL	O
(	O
Portably	O
Implemented	O
STack	O
Oriented	O
Language	O
)	O
;	O
ibid	O
.	O
</s>
