Update to 4p.

From	Helmar Wodtke <helmwo@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Update to 4p.
Date	2012-03-26 09:54 -0700
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Hi all,

I recently decided to make a fresh repository for HelFORTH/forth4p/4p (choose one name you know - the real name is "HelFORTH 4p" and "forth4p" comes from restrictions in repository names at google code).

You can get things now fresh at https://bitbucket.org/helmwo/forth4p

That system is mature, tested in real world applications, fast enough (for me) and features things like FFI and a JIT-compiler (JIT is for x86).

It implements ANS on base of a non-ANS system (based on earlier RetroForth implementations/philosophies). Some parts of Forth 200x are implemented as well.

My basic interest now is to get 200x-extensions implemented in full. The ANS layer might get some changes - but it's basically complete enough.

What's not working at the moment is online-help. In a basic way you can grep for "help:" and use some sed-script to get a basic online help that would work. Also not there at the moment is documentation and examples for FFI. Well, I do have plenty of examples here - but I'd have to break them out of context for simple examples. As the ANS-layer is considered a "normal" user setup now, I do not think I have to document the implementation behind (just take it as ANS and report if it is not). Some things of the implementation are documented here in C.L.F and some things I still have from older versions as documents that need only some small fixups to be "recent enough".

So if someone wants to take a look at it - be invited ;)
You don't need to buy something... It's MIT-licensed.

Regards,
-Helmar

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Update to 4p. Helmar Wodtke <helmwo@gmail.com> - 2012-03-26 09:54 -0700
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