Re: [colorforth] forth taxonomy

[Mark Slicker <maslicke@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Kurt B. Kaiser wrote:

> Mark Slicker <maslicke@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Forth has a long history. I'm only familer with one implementation
> > (colorForth), is there classification of past techiniques? I feel I would
> > be more able in implementing new colorForths if I understood the breadth
> > of past Forth implementations.
>
> I don't think that is necessarily true.  Chuck wrote his more recent
> creations in an attempt to go back to the roots of Forth.  He feels
> that the development of Forth to look like the mainstream languages is
> misguided.
>
> If I were you, I'd ignore ANS Forth.  You're doing great, don't
> contaminate yourself :-)
>

Good advice! I have probably taken on well enough contamination from C and
friends :)

> You might check out Chuck's history of Forth at
> colorforth.com/HOPL.html

I had forgotten Chuck's document, that is an excelent source of
information.

Mostly I'm looking to simplify colorForth to point of triviality and then
build up from there. The hardware I'm working with does not welcome a
one-to-one port of colorForth, besides this I don't feel confortable
writing this amount of assembly completely untested. The compexity of the
hardware also deters me from a one shot aproach.

Starting out with an interpreter like Chuck had done looks like a good
aproach. Then I can add definitions one by one and interactively test as I
go.

Mark

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