On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 02:01:29PM -0500, Owen wrote: > I was wondering why gforth was written
In the beginning, the idea was to have a free and portable implementation of Forth-94 (ANS Forth) that should be the Forth-94-compatible successor of fig-Forth and F83 (a popular system that implemented the Forth-83 standard). The goals are outlined in <http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/Docs-html/Goals.html>, and you can read more about the ideas behind it and the original implementation approach in http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/papers/ertl93.ps.gz - anton
