Forth like interpreter

Will Ware wware at world.std.com
Sat Mar 11 23:43:23 EST 2000


Darrell (darrell at dorb.com) wrote:
> Wrote a Forth like interpreter in Python...
> Kragen Sitaker mentioned in "What if Python Replaced Elisp" that Forth
> compilers were easy. He's right!

Isn't it fun? I've written them in assembly language for 6809
and a Texas Instruments DSP, and one or two in C, and here's
one in Java (source included):
http://world.std.com/~wware/agj/ag.html

Too much of this, and you'll start appreciating just how nice
it is to have a reasonably smart compiler around (like the one
in Python).
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Will Ware	email:    wware @ world.std.com



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