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I don't think the article mentions metacompilation, which is a further cute and mind-bending feature Forth is known for. Metacompilation re-uses the live, runn
by tailrecursion 4y ago
I don't think the article mentions metacompilation, which is a further cute and mind-bending feature Forth is known for.
Metacompilation re-uses the live, running interpreter/compiler to compile a new system image of itself, from source code.
- howerj 4y agoI've made a few meta-compilers before, there's nothing quite like bringing up a system from scratch and getting it to compile itself. It's one of the (few) things Forth is good at.