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FORTH is a wonderful language, I've written a couple of toy implementations. I just wish I could use it for something "real".
by stevekemp 8y ago
FORTH is a wonderful language, I've written a couple of toy implementations. I just wish I could use it for something "real".
- pmarreck 8y agoSame here! https://github.com/pmarreck/elixir-snippets/blob/master/rpn_forth_thing.exs https://github.com/pmarreck/elixir-snippets/blob/master/rpn_... I found it fun, and it was actually super easy to implement a stack-based language interpreter in an immutable pattern-matching language like Erlang/Elixir. It's incomplete because I haven't yet figured out how to define the defining character ":"...
- baldfat 8y agoBack in the C64 days there was a Abacus Forth but it cost was pretty high if I remember right $225???? I got a copy from the software store I work with as a teenager and got one at cost. It was great after coming from basic > assembly (Talk about your learning curves).
- samatman 8y agoThere's an arduino-compatible forth stack, avrforth. It does require that you license code which runs on it as GPL, which I consider onerous. But it works! If that constraint suits you.