Re: Renaissance of Forth

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From	Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl>
Subject	Re: Renaissance of Forth
Date	2011-04-06 22:43 +0000
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In article <27udnR6IY-7GlwTQnZ2dnUVZ_jCdnZ2d@supernews.com>,
Elizabeth D Rather  <erather@forth.com> wrote:
>On 4/3/11 1:45 PM, Paul Rubin wrote:
>> John Passaniti<john.passaniti@gmail.com>  writes:
>>> you had a way to invoke C statements, but the
>>> code executed lived in it's own little world-- the C code had no
>>> visibility of Forth's stack and the grammar didn't appear to have any
>>> way to call Forth code.
>>
>> How is this usually handled if you replace the word "C" with "assembler"?
>
>Many Forths (all that I've ever worked with) included an assembler
>written in Forth for the processor it's running on.  You can write CODE
>definitions whose bodies are expressed in that assembler, which generate
>actual machine code.  And you can drop into assembler for things like
>interrupt handlers.  The entire Forth VM (as well as the underlying
>processor) is available to such code, and there's nothing external to
>the Forth that has to be involved.
>
>Nowadays, the approach is to minimize the requirement to write CODE
>words by using an optimizing compiler that generates good-quality
>machine code.

Bottom line: the assembly code *lives* in the Forth world.
This is very different from *interfacing* with a C-world.

>
>Cheers,
>Elizabeth

Groetjes Albert

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  Re: Renaissance of Forth Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-04-01 02:29 -0500
  Re: Renaissance of Forth Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2011-04-01 12:46 +0000
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      Re: Renaissance of Forth Brad <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2011-04-01 07:47 -0700
      Re: Renaissance of Forth John Passaniti <john.passaniti@gmail.com> - 2011-04-01 16:40 -0700
        Re: Renaissance of Forth BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-04-01 18:20 -0700
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      Re: Renaissance of Forth Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2011-04-02 00:23 +0000
        Re: Renaissance of Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-04-01 16:24 -0700
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      Re: Renaissance of Forth John Passaniti <john.passaniti@gmail.com> - 2011-04-02 14:50 -0700
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                Re: Renaissance of Forth Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2011-04-06 22:43 +0000
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                Re: Renaissance of Forth John Passaniti <john.passaniti@gmail.com> - 2011-04-13 09:27 -0700
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                Re: Renaissance of Forth Richard Owlett <rowlett@pcnetinc.com> - 2011-04-13 13:02 -0500
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                Re: Renaissance of Forth Micke <oh2aun@gmail.com> - 2011-04-13 13:23 -0700
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                Re: Renaissance of Forth John Passaniti <john.passaniti@gmail.com> - 2011-04-15 10:28 -0700
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                Re: Renaissance of Forth John Passaniti <john.passaniti@gmail.com> - 2011-04-04 08:39 -0700
                Re: Renaissance of Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-04-04 09:41 -0700
                Re: Renaissance of Forth Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2011-04-06 22:39 +0000
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