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Re: Forth in Javascript?

From Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Forth in Javascript?
Date 2017-05-03 07:05 +0300
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 03/05/2017 6:54, Brad Eckert wrote:
> Just something I'm mulling over.
> 
> I know, it sounds very slow, an interpreter running on an interpreter. However, some major web browsers can run extensions written in Javascript. The browser window can then be your console. It looks like the browser can access files and serial ports, so a Forth development environment (for embedded systems) could run in a browser. Slowness isn't necessarily a problem then.
> 
> The browser is basically a really fancy terminal with all of the HTML5 toys. One could implement a colorForth as a browser extension.
> 
> I've heard of Forths in Java, but Javascript is a completely different animal.
> 

https://www.npmjs.com/package/js-forth

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Forth in Javascript? Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2017-05-02 20:54 -0700
  Re: Forth in Javascript? Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2017-05-03 07:05 +0300
  Re: Forth in Javascript? Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2017-05-03 06:54 +0200
  Re: Forth in Javascript? Rod Pemberton <NeedNotReplyHere@xrsevnneqk.cem> - 2017-05-03 03:53 -0400
    Re: Forth in Javascript? Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2017-05-03 10:20 +0200
      Re: Forth in Javascript? Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2017-05-03 09:55 -0700
        Re: Forth in Javascript? Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2017-05-03 19:36 +0200
  Re: Forth in Javascript? JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2017-05-03 03:05 -0700
  Re: Forth in Javascript? crc <charles.childers@gmail.com> - 2017-05-03 10:29 -0700

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