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Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth |
Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth |
language. This represents the present state of the Gforth project |
language. It works nicely with the Emacs editor, offers some nice |
whose goal is the development of a standard implementation model for |
features such as input completion and history and a powerful locals |
ANS Forth. Gforth supports indirect threading on every machine |
facility, and it even has (the beginnings of) a manual. Gforth employs |
supported by GCC, and direct threading on several popular |
traditional implementation techniques: its inner innerpreter is |
architectures. Gforth is distributed under the GNU General Public |
indirect or direct threaded. Gforth is distributed under the GNU |
license (see COPYING). |
General Public license (see COPYING). |
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Gforth runs under Unix and DOS and should not be hard to port to other |
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systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested successfully on |
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Linux (for Intel), SunOS (SPARC) and Ultrix (MIPS). |
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Read INSTALL for installation instructions. Mail |
Read INSTALL for installation instructions. Mail |
gforth-bugs@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at if you have problems. To start |
gforth-bugs@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at if you have problems. To start |
the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it). |
the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it). |
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You can find new versions of Gforth at |
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http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth |
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ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth |
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This site will also contain binary distributions of Gforth for some |
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popular platforms when it has proved stable. |
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If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found |
If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found |
in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there, |
in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there, |
it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are |
it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are |