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Re: doing exercises for starting forth, kinda discouraging, some are easy and some seem text not prepare me for....

From Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid>
Subject Re: doing exercises for starting forth, kinda discouraging, some are easy and some seem text not prepare me for....
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
References <2a5baeb8-2c72-41a6-8648-d52842405f18@n16g2000vbn.googlegroups.com> <ju7ifu02cet@enews2.newsguy.com> <m7eo6d.kfk@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> <wbOdnWwHX40ca5rNnZ2dnUVZ8lSdnZ2d@supernews.com> <m7f79o.4zm@spenarnc.xs4all.nl>
Message-ID <AoSdnRyPuOGE15XNnZ2dnUVZ8vWdnZ2d@supernews.com> (permalink)
Date 2012-07-19 12:55 -0500

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Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> In article <wbOdnWwHX40ca5rNnZ2dnUVZ8lSdnZ2d@supernews.com>,
> Andrew Haley  <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> wrote:
>>Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>> In article <ju7ifu02cet@enews2.newsguy.com>, WJ <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>Anton Ertl wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> BTW, the source code for ;S and ?BRANCH is:
>>>>>
>>>>> ;s   ( R:w -- )              gforth  semis
>>>>> ""The primitive compiled by @code{EXIT}.""
>>>>> #ifdef NO_IP
>>>>> INST_TAIL;
>>>>> goto *(void *)w;
>>>>> #else
>>>>> SET_IP((Xt *)w);
>>>>> #endif
>>>>>
>>>>> condbranch(?branch,f --,f83  question_branch,
>>>>> ,if (f==0) {
>>>>> ,:
>>>>>  0= dup 0=          \ !f f
>>>>>  r> tuck cell+      \ !f branchoffset f IP+
>>>>>  and -rot @ and or  \ f&IP+|!f&branch
>>>>>  >r ;)
>>>>>
>>>>> There's some m4 in this, some Vmgen, some C, and some Forth.
>>>>
>>>>KISS
>>>>
>>>>(Keep it simple, stupid.)
>>>
>>> I can confirm that m4 is sometimes just the best solution for
>>> a problem. To generate ciforth's I use m4 to massage assembler
>>> files.
>>
>>Sure, but if your Forth was written in Forth you wouldn't have to do
>>any of this stuff.
> 
> A fair comparison would be to require that the result is a windows
> executable, and the Forth code is acceptable to 4 Forth compilers on
> Windows.
> Then I definitely need a whole slew of m4 code.

I don't really understand why this is a goal.  If your Forth could
build itself, why would you want to build it on some other Forth?  I
dont think I've ever heard of a Forth in Forth that builds itself on
*any* Forth.

Andrew.

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  Re: doing exercises for starting forth, kinda discouraging, some are easy and some seem text not prepare me for.... Howerd <howerdo@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-07-07 23:59 -0700
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          Re: doing exercises for starting forth, kinda discouraging, some are easy and some seem text not prepare me for.... Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2012-07-10 15:33 +0300
          Re: doing exercises for starting forth, kinda discouraging, some are easy and some seem text not prepare me for.... Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2012-07-10 18:32 +0000
        Re: doing exercises for starting forth, kinda discouraging, some are easy and some seem text not prepare me for.... Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2012-07-10 18:31 +0000
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              Re: doing exercises for starting forth, kinda discouraging, some are easy and some seem text not prepare me for.... Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2012-07-11 02:29 -0700
              Re: doing exercises for starting forth, kinda discouraging, some are easy and some seem text not prepare me for.... "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-07-11 07:29 -1000
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                Re: doing exercises for starting forth, kinda discouraging, some are easy and some seem text not prepare me for.... anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-07-19 12:48 +0000
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                Re: doing exercises for starting forth, kinda discouraging, some are easy and some seem text not prepare me for.... Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-07-19 16:07 +0200
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                Re: doing exercises for starting forth, kinda discouraging, some are easy and some seem text not prepare me for.... Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-07-19 12:55 -0500
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