Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter.

From	Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid>
Subject	Re: The most elegant Forth interpreter.
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Date	2013-05-20 04:01 -0500

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visualforth@rocketmail.com wrote:
> On Sunday, May 19, 2013 5:12:59 AM UTC-4, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> visualforth.com wrote:
>> > On Saturday, May 18, 2013 2:38:38 PM UTC-4, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> >> ... given an existing Forth I can tell you how to do it.
>> > "given an existing Forth" - what do you need to be given?
>> > Would 4e4th be okay? The 4e4th core is written at 
>> > http://www.forth-ev.de/repos/4e4th/4e-core430G2553.s43
>> > Please tell how to do it.
> 
>> Ouch.  That Forth isn't written in Forth, but in assembly language.
>> This is going to make it painful to change.  Why do people do this?
>> :-(
> 
> I guess this is for two reasons:
> 1. To get the resulting Forth work
> 2. To get the resulting Forth run fast

Eh?  I don't understand what you mean.

>> For the high level code, consider something like this:
> 
> With other words - it will be better to write my own Forth!

Or this.

Andrew.

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