Re: Which standard?

From	Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
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Subject	Re: Which standard?
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Date	2012-03-23 23:06 -0700
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"The Other Rod Pemberton" <dontaskdonttell@pemberton.it> writes:
>> Later on, some Forth, probably eForth, introduced the concept of
>> Forth being written in terms of Forth and a number low-level primitives. 
>
> Paul alluded to this in another post I'll respond to shortly. A
> self-hosting Forth is certainly a neat technical trick.

I don't think the "later on" description is really accurate.  The
old-timers here know much better than I do, but my impression is that
Forth has traditionally been written in Forth almost from the beginning.
Chuck's Forths were written in Forth, and even Figforth was originally
metacompiled but then distributed as assembler listings for
bootstrapping and conceptual simplification for non-Forth programmers.
In other words, implementing Forth in anything but Forth seems to be
missing the point.

> In my case I have very good tools. The macro assembler is
> outstanding. It's so robust and powerful I can't reproduce it 

If you're going after implementation convenience by a non-Forth language
for your Forth implementation, why go as low-level as assembler?
There's a pretty cool Forth written in Javascript, for example:

  http://forthfreak.net/jsforth.html

You can run it in a browser and it occurs to me, it might be interesting
to add some metacompilation hooks.  So you could write a Forth in Forth,
then use an "interpreter in the sky" (i.e. server-hosted JSForth) to
bootstrap with.

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