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There's a number of Forth implementations for 8-bit computers. Chuck Moore has claimed "A Forth application can take 1% the code employed by the same applicati
by ken 6y ago
There's a number of Forth implementations for 8-bit computers.
Chuck Moore has claimed "A Forth application can take 1% the code employed by the same application written in C" [1], which is certainly a big benefit on a small computer.
[1]: https://colorforth.github.io/1percent.html https://colorforth.github.io/1percent.html
- Doctor_Fegg 6y agoThere was even one 8-bit machine which shipped with Forth as standard, rather than BASIC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Ace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Ace