Hi -
Brace yourself... I work in an environment where FORTH is still used.
I've been thinking about writing a G-machine interpreter in FORTH
so that one could write Haskell like programs that would compile down
and run graph-reduction style on the FORTH machine.
Many developers think
Andrew Harris writes:
Brace yourself... I work in an environment where FORTH is still used.
I've been thinking about writing a G-machine interpreter in FORTH
so that one could write Haskell like programs that would compile down
and run graph-reduction style on the FORTH machine.
let
Actually I am very impressed from the FORTH simplicity and efficiency.
I was developing one FORTH system for DOS a couple of years ago and I
think it is very useful for small programs that have to perform low
level/hardware tasks. Unfortunatelly it doesn't scale well for larger
applications. I
I always thought Forth was way cool, but I've never managed to get anything
significant written in it. I think that Forth has echoes of the
point-free style in Haskell, but Haskell is a lot friendlier.
Is the Forth environment part of the hardware? If your Forth is just a
threaded interpreter
Andrew Harris wrote:
I've been thinking about writing a G-machine interpreter in FORTH
so that one could write Haskell like programs that would compile down
and run graph-reduction style on the FORTH machine.
Many developers think FORTH is nice, but the language is so, shall
we say,
