The goal of the Gforth Project is to develop a standard model for ANSI Forth. This can be split into several subgoals:
To achieve these goals Gforth should be
Have we achieved these goals? Gforth conforms to the ANS Forth standard. It may be considered a model, but we have not yet documented which parts of the model are stable and which parts we are likely to change. It certainly has not yet become a de facto standard. It has some similarities and some differences to previous models. It has some powerful features, but not yet everything that we envisioned. We certainly have achieved our execution speed goals (see section Performance). It is free and available on many machines.