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Subject: Re: jonesforth: taking up the challenge
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From: Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org>
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Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2013 07:29:02 +0200
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Bernd Paysan wrote:
> The idea of JonesForth (or the JonesForth approach) as a teaching
> tool is the bottom-up idea.  You start where your audiance is, which
> is much more likely x86 assembler than Forth.  And then you build up
> knowledge; slowly.
>
> A Forth system that lifts itself has a bootstrap problem; but that
> can be overcome by using another Forth for a start.  However, a
> Forth system that lifts itself has a teaching bootstrap problem.

Then how about this:

1. Start by cleaning up Jonesforth.
2. Add an assembler.  Explain the beauty of Forth assemblers.
3. Add a metacompiler.  This could be a mind-warping lesson.
4. Rebuild itself; now self-hosting.