It would be more accurate to describe a metacompiler as a cross compiler to the machine an interpreted Forth is implemented on. I recommend Moving Forth [1] fo

It would be more accurate to describe a metacompiler as a cross compiler to the machine an interpreted Forth is implemented on. I recommend Moving Forth [1] for the full explanation. (That's the part that addresses metacompliers, the rest is still quite a great book.) [1] https://www.bradrodriguez.com/papers/moving4.htm https://www.bradrodriguez.com/papers/moving4.htm