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stevekemp on Feb 4, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Forth to Scratch compiler

It is nice to see the recent rise of posts about FORTH. It's a language I first played with back on the 48k ZX Spectrum in the late nineties.

When I first used it I loved the way you could redefine the language, at run-time in the REPL. These days I just love the purity and cleanliness of the language.

I don't have a single compelling use-case for it, but over the years I've written my own implementation in C, Java, and Perl.

Having recently started playing with hardware it is nice to see you can even run it on ESP8266 / Arduino hardware.

xzm on Feb 4, 2017 | [–]

Very timely remark :) Take a look at what jcw (of tclkit fame) is doing:

http://jeelabs.org/2017/02/various-shades-of-forth/

stevekemp on Feb 4, 2017 | | [–]

Thanks for the link, they were indeed timely pieces!

qwertyuiop924 on Feb 4, 2017 | [–]

It looks like it might be a nice language to write stuff for the GBA with.

Or the GB/CGB, for that matter, but space is much more limited there.

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