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People just can't stand the idea of writing a Forth parser, I guess lol

https://www.prepressure.com/postscript/basics/history



FORTH is a wonderful language, I've written a couple of toy implementations. I just wish I could use it for something "real".


There's an arduino-compatible forth stack, avrforth.

It does require that you license code which runs on it as GPL, which I consider onerous. But it works! If that constraint suits you.


Same here! https://github.com/pmarreck/elixir-snippets/blob/master/rpn_... I found it fun, and it was actually super easy to implement a stack-based language interpreter in an immutable pattern-matching language like Erlang/Elixir.

It's incomplete because I haven't yet figured out how to define the defining character ":"...


Back in the C64 days there was a Abacus Forth but it cost was pretty high if I remember right $225???? I got a copy from the software store I work with as a teenager and got one at cost. It was great after coming from basic > assembly (Talk about your learning curves).


Pdf is a bit more than a forth implementation. There is a reason there are so few pdf parsers out there.


I understand. Was (mostly) joking.




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