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Tessa Bonting <tessa.bonting@gmail.com> writes:
> Anybody, that is at grade C in ANS-Forth can write a cross-compiler
> and you say that you are a professial writer of Forth.

I'm probably below grade C but I don't quite see how to write a
cross-compiler in pure ANS.  There was an extension proposal that seems
to be offline now:

   http://www.forth.com/downloads/ANS/XCpaper.pdf

I didn't check Wayback so it might be there.  I think I have an offline
copy someplace.