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RE: [colorforth] New Linux 4word


On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, [iso-8859-1] Frédéric DUBOIS wrote:

ASCII is the bed-rock of computers. Every other data format
is transitory.
The colorForth kernel is written in ASCII. [...]

That's an accident. ColorForth2 will be written in ColorForth ( well,
perhaps not exactly, but you know what I mean: it will be able to compile
himself from it's source).
A propos, Chuck seems to be very busy; IMVVVHO the CF community here should
consider doing itself this project to accelerate things. But that's just my
VVVHO.

I agree, and in fact I have started on this path by writing a colorForth compiler in colorForth. The environment itself has not seen a signifigant evolution since its original release, and that is disapointing. I attribute this to the majority of source code defining colorForth being in the kernel, in x86 assembler, rather anything to do the source format of colorForth.

Mark
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