is this possible for normal people?

or something for hardcore forthers only?

also is coloforth the latest thing from c moore or is there something
beyond it?

On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:13:55 -0700, gavino wrote:

Also, is there a C (or otherwise portable or multiplatform) version of
ColorForth available that runs on a host OS?

On Tue, 9 Jul 2008, DavidM wrote:

On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:33:15 -0400, spam wrote:

It feels like a huge shame to me when otherwise excellent Forths are
packaged in a form that doesn't clearly and cleanly delineate between the
high-level and machine-dependent layers, or at least clearly document
their hardware assumptions and offer good porting instructions.

forth.org is chock-full of forth distros whose userbases are orders of
magnitude smaller because they have voluntarily locked themselves in a
platform prison.

DavidM wrote:

ARGGHHHH!
OK already, I may be "preaching to the choir".

But as I see it, Forth's *LARGEST* strong point is its adaptability.

More than 30 years ago I got an inflated reputation as a "computer guru"
for which FORTH should have received the credit.

My employer had a CAD system which had a Forth inspired layer.

Using less than half dozen colon definitions I was able to have the
field surveyors could enter their logs and get scaled plots.

My "vast" Forth background included reading _Byte_ and _Dr Dobbs_.

Hey folks, lets quit slamming Forth.

Colorforth have some advantages over other forths..

be more simple, don't have DOES> for example,

YES is this possible for normal people

I try Colorforth 2.0a and is great and the manual too

the background in math are necesary !

I make :r4 in C, the inspiration is colorfoth,
the VM is a one function of 300 lines, very fast
and the compiler in C is about 400 lines of C
but !!!

:r4 in :r4 is shorter

I presume Colorforth in Colorfoth be more small

On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:04:31 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:

On Wed, 10 Jul 2008, DavidM wrote:

Yes, and amoung them, ForthOS ... what appears to be a very cool bootable
native forth system ...

It boots wonderfully under qemu ....
$ qemu -cdrom forthos.iso -hda forth.Image -boot d

DavidM nowhere.com> writes Re: learning colorforth
[..]

This is a meaningless statement when the constraints aren't stated.

E.g., jumping off the top of the village church tower will allow you to
fly. It will only be a few seconds, in a prescribed direction, and only
suitable for die-hard programmers. But is just the thing if it's the
only time in your life that you want to fly. (It's quite flexible even,
when you want to fly longer, simply look for a higher tower).

-marcel