Today's Topics:

1. Re: FORTH (erikc)

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No. But this might be helpful if you are willing to translate from C.

http://ficl.sourceforge.net/ficl.html

erikc

There is another C-one http://sourceforge.net/projects/fork001/ using only 12 (!) assembler commands afaik. First i sent the original question to Mr. Sedlacek, he posted it here, so here my 5 cents: The idea behind was not only to write a Forth interpreter in Oberon, but to use Forth as intermediate assembler. As at the Oberon day some suggested for example a P-code interpreter or similar. Mr Ertl published some years ago (1997) a paper for an Oberon Forth parser: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/papers/ertl97.ps.gz There are some Forth processors for FPGAs around. http://www.ultratechnology.com/4thvhdl.htm For the Propeller parallel processor there is a Forth available http://code.google.com/p/propforth/ and even Chuck Moore the inventor of Forth is no selling a processor http://greenarraychips.com/ with 144 cores each running a forth interpreter. Other Forth interpreters are also commercial available for several embedded systems. for example http://www.forth.com/swiftforth/ I know that at the ETH a parallel Oberon on FPGA project is running for directly generating VHDL from an High Level Oberon Style language. But maybe a Forth generator as intermediate step will make things less complicate. And as resumee of the Oberon Day 2011, i for mee learned, that we need the most simply tools with clear and straight forward interfaces to solve the "software crisis". Kind Regards Markus Greim