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Gforth

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Developer(s)
  
GNU Project

Written in
  
C, Forth

Original author(s)
  
Bernd Paysan, Anton Ertl

Initial release
  
mid-1992; 25 years ago (1992)

Stable release
  
0.7.3 / June 14, 2014; 2 years ago (2014-06-14)

Repository
  
git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gforth.git

Gforth is a project to develop an implementation for ANS Forth. It is part of the GNU Project.

Contents

Goals

Gforth's goals can be split into several subgoals:

  • Gforth should conform to the ANS Forth standard.
  • It should be a model, i.e. it should define all implementation dependencies.
  • It should become standard, i.e. widely accepted and used. This goal is the most difficult one.

    • History

    The Gforth project was started in mid-1992 by Bernd Paysan and Anton Ertl. Gforth descends from bigFORTH and fig-Forth Gforth uses GCC to compile a fast direct or indirect threaded Forth; Gforth is fully ANS FORTH compliant.

    References

    Gforth Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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