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Re: Bootstrapping

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Chris Curl wrote:
> Might someone have a Forth bootstrap script that assumes (some number 
> of) primitives are already defined? Ideally, such a script could build 
> a working Forth by building on the primitives that are hand coded 
> into the system.

Aren't most Forths implemented that way?  I.e. a few primitives written
in CODE or assembly language, and the rest built on top of those in
Forth.  The "script" in this scenario would be the metacompiler or an
assembler.

But this might be more what you're looking for:
https://github.com/16Bitt/forthstrap

Also, I'm sure Albert van der Horst can explain how his Forths are
generated with the m4 preprocessor.

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Bootstrapping Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 14:08 -0800
  Re: Bootstrapping Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-01 14:31 -0800
  Re: Bootstrapping Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2015-12-02 08:04 +0100
    Re: Bootstrapping Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2015-12-02 11:53 +0000
  Re: Bootstrapping "Rod Pemberton" <boo@fasdfrewar.cdm> - 2015-12-05 21:02 -0500

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