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Re: colorForth markup tags

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In article <49a14599-c042-4540-9c78-c5790d60b0a7@v11g2000prk.googlegroups.com>,
Brad  <hwfwguy@gmail.com> wrote:
>I would like to represent Forth source as tagged strings rather than
>blank-delimited strings, kind of the way colorForth does. But I want
>to do it in a such a way that a HTML browser can read it.
>
>The source is still essentially colorForth, but its source encoding
>isn't Chuck's compact binary. The interpreter would simply skip over
>tags that don't make sense. I could put in anchors, hyperlinks,
>graphics, etc. for documentation purposes and not disturb the source.

Assuming at some point you want to run the code, I think
this is overly ambitious.

You don't want to put all that effort into a moving target.

(What we have here now.)
Using .cfs sources works as follows:
 You have ASCII sources (.cfs) equivalent to colorforth by prefixes
 gvim handles prefixes giving the illusion of seeing in colorforth,
   so there: at least one main stream editor to comfortably
   edit colorforth source
 You can transform the source into blocks.
 You can combine those blocks with a main system (patched to suit)
 You can than run the main system

Whenever GreenArrays comes out with a new main system, you have
to patch it again. Then you have to debug your interface.

Even with this minimal system we didn't manage to find the
time to do the patch again with the latest system GreenArrays
releases. You don't expect the changes to be documented at the
programmers level, do you?

I estimate that you're better off, just rewriting colorforth
in C without the Huffman encoding and weird keyboards.
I'm serious.
(Of course if you're just looking for a really demanding challenge,
be my guest!)

Leon is currently writing a simulator for F18 to replace Green
Arrays' . That is also challenging, but at least it is not
a moving target.

>-Brad


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colorForth markup tags Brad <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2011-06-23 10:12 -0700
  Re: colorForth markup tags Mux <spam_catcher123@hotmail.com> - 2011-06-23 14:15 -0700
    Re: colorForth markup tags John Passaniti <john.passaniti@gmail.com> - 2011-06-24 16:17 -0700
      Re: colorForth markup tags Brad <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2011-06-27 09:53 -0700
  Re: colorForth markup tags Jean-François Michaud <cometaj@comcast.net> - 2011-06-23 15:01 -0700
  Re: colorForth markup tags Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2011-06-24 10:23 +0000
  Re: colorForth markup tags Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-06-25 01:35 -0700
    Re: colorForth markup tags John Passaniti <john.passaniti@gmail.com> - 2011-06-25 12:45 -0700
      Re: colorForth markup tags Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-06-25 13:26 -0700
        Re: colorForth markup tags John Passaniti <john.passaniti@gmail.com> - 2011-06-27 07:39 -0700
      Re: colorForth markup tags Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2011-06-27 16:24 +0100
  Re: colorForth markup tags Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2011-06-25 10:21 +0000

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