My history with Forth and stack machines (2010)

Re:My history with Forth and stack machines (2010) by bdowling on Friday October 04, 2019 @12:50AM (#21154858)

I didn't really appreciate Forth until I found Jonesforth [0], a very well-documented Forth implementation in a single x86 assembly file. You can read it from top to bottom and gain a pretty good understanding of how a Forth can be implemented.

[0] http://git.annexia.org/?p=jonesforth.git;a=blob;f=jonesforth...

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Re:My history with Forth and stack machines (2010) by tgvaughan on Friday October 04, 2019 @04:03AM (#21155728)

I agree! I found jonesforth's literate source so exciting that I went off and implemented FORTH 83 in Julia. Sadly though, Jonesforth doesn't implement create/does...

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