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Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter.

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Subject	Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter.
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albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) writes:
> There was a lecture about why "jonesforth is popular" ...
> ciforth contains four improvements over classic indirect
> threaded Forth's....

Those really do seem nicer than ANS, which looks kludgy by comparison.
Retroforth also looks clean.

But, I think Jonesforth's attraction is partly from explanations all the
way to the deepest, lowest level details.  And the uninitiated seem to
like that it starts from assembly language--I guess the idea of
metacompilation comes later.

I've heard a few times that there is a version of cmforth annotated by
Jay Melvin around somewhere.  I'd like to see it.  Does anyone know
where to find it?

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The most elegant Forth interpreter. albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-04-27 09:13 +0000
  Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-04-27 22:46 -0700
    Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-04-28 03:37 -0500
      Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-04-28 12:58 +0000
        Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-04-28 17:00 -0500
          Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-04-28 18:26 -0700
            Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-04-29 03:28 -0500
              Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-04-29 01:38 -0700
                Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-04-29 01:43 -0700
                Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-04-29 04:01 -0500
              Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-04-29 08:07 -1000
                Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-04-29 20:55 +0200
                Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-04-29 16:28 -0500
                Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-04-29 23:35 +0200
                Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-04-29 17:28 -0500
                Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-04-29 23:20 -0700
                Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-04-29 21:11 -1000
                Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-04-30 03:21 -0500
                Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-04-30 01:57 -0700
                Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-04-30 09:00 +0000
                Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-04-30 02:10 -0700
                Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-04-30 14:34 +0000
                Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2013-04-30 17:18 +0200
                Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-04-30 10:04 -0700
                Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-04-30 04:13 -0500
                Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-04-30 18:40 +0200
                Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-04-30 12:50 -0500
                Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-05-03 22:01 -0700
                Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-04-30 04:09 -0500
                Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-05-06 19:29 -0700
                Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. Elizabeth D Rather <erather@forth.com> - 2013-04-29 12:35 -1000
                Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-04-30 01:50 +0200
                Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-04-29 13:55 -1000
                Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-04-30 09:03 +0000
            Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-04-29 10:32 +0000
              Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-04-29 08:34 -0700
                Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotq.cpm> - 2013-04-29 17:31 -0400
                Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-04-29 17:56 -0500
              Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. lynx <rinkasu@kaze.void.null> - 2013-04-29 22:38 +0000
    Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2013-04-29 12:31 +1000
      Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. Spam@ControlQ.com - 2013-04-29 13:31 -0400
  Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. jlarsonfour3@gmail.com - 2013-04-29 08:14 -0700
  Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter. the_gavino_himself <visphatesjava@gmail.com> - 2013-04-29 10:28 -0700

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