Gforth
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| Original author(s) | Bernd Paysan, Anton Ertl |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | GNU Project |
| Initial release | mid-1992[1] |
| Stable release | 0.7.3
/ June 14, 2014 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | C, Forth |
| Operating system | Unix-like, Microsoft Windows, DOS, OS/2 |
| Type | Interpreter |
| License | GNU GPLv3 |
| Website | gnu |
Gforth is a project to develop an implementation for ANSI Forth. It is part of the GNU Project.[2]
Goals
Gforth's goals can be split into several subgoals:
- Gforth should conform to the ANSI 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[1][3][4] Gforth uses GCC to compile a fast direct or indirect threaded Forth; Gforth is fully ANSI FORTH compliant.[2]
References
- ^ a b Origin - Gforth Manual
- ^ a b directory.fsf.org, ed. (14 June 2014). "GNU Forth". Free Software Foundation.
{{cite web}}:|editor=has generic name (help) - ^ http://bigforth.sourceforge.net/ by Bernd Paysan
- ^ http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst/figforth.html
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