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[muggins]

http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/bigforth.html

[erikson]

Thanks, one of these days I'm going to give it a try.

Last time I programmed in Forth was more than twenty years ago.

I had written the Forth interactive interpreter & incremental compiler myself, in 8080/8085 macro-assembler (for Intel's legendary 8080 and 8085 eight-bit microprocessors).

[geneven]

When I first got access to a PC, running, I think, at 4.77 mHz, with a big 10-meg hard drive and with whatever the first step over monochrome graphics was, I sent off for a floppy disk that had Forth on it. I had fun, though I don't think I really learned much. But I often think of returning to Forth. I still have many of the most popular books...somewhere.

[muggins]

I have to admit that I'm definitely not a forther...probably a kindy-forther! But I always like to keep up with any developments in the forth world. I find it amazing that a well written forth program can be smaller than the assembly equivalent.

If you're interested in a small forth, which works with either linux or windows, have a look at reva. The developer seems to bring out new versions very regularly, and I'm waiting to see which graphics toolkit he plumps for.

[sunburnt]

The IDE has a spartan appearance, but that's okay, the GUI it makes is what matters.
GUI's with a modern & slick look & feel make for realistic main stream app. building.

[muggins]

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