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I think the FORTH in the title text also references the CIA statue, which is a cryptogram with 3 parts solved and the fourth part remains unsolved. Possibly also the date May fourth, which was a popular topic on reddit because of Star Wars (and because this comic was posted just after May 4). [[Special:Contributions/173.245.50.102|173.245.50.102]] 18:33, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
 
I think the FORTH in the title text also references the CIA statue, which is a cryptogram with 3 parts solved and the fourth part remains unsolved. Possibly also the date May fourth, which was a popular topic on reddit because of Star Wars (and because this comic was posted just after May 4). [[Special:Contributions/173.245.50.102|173.245.50.102]] 18:33, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
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No. Unlike the computer on which the Forth language was developed, comics allow words with more than 5 letters to be used, so if it was a reference to these it would have been spelled 'Fourth'. The programming language would also have been spelled that way if Chuck Moore had had a decent computer (but maybe then he wouldn't have invented the language). He reckoned it was a fourth-generation language, superseding third-gen languages like C or Pascal. We all have blind spots about the potential of our pet projects. Or kids. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.38.28|162.158.38.28]] 13:01, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
 
  
 
I know Elonka (the CIA Kryptos expert), and I think she'd disagree. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.54.58|172.68.54.58]] 15:37, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
 
I know Elonka (the CIA Kryptos expert), and I think she'd disagree. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.54.58|172.68.54.58]] 15:37, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

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