A long long time ago, back in the 80s, I learned and used Forth
( Polyforth ) where I worked. I've been looking back into Forth again,
now have gForth loaded on my Ubuntu box. I've been looking for online
documentation, found the 'gForth Manual' and the dspan94/ANS info.
While useful these documents don't document everything. So, I have a
few questions:
1. Does more indepth documentation exist online?
2. What hardcopy books would you recommend?
3. From what I see gForth can be run in a multi-tasking mode. Can and
how do I do this on my Linux ( ubuntu ) platform?
4. Are there any bindings to GUI interfaces or even a way to use
nCurses?

Thx,
Patrick

On May 27, 12:59 pm, PatrikoDeAlasko gmail.com> wrote:

This bit I can answer. Got a good link.

http://www.shockfamily.net/cedric/fflib.html

Basically, at present one way to call external dynamic libraries like
gtk is to link your gforth with ffcall. So build ffcall and rebuild
gforth. That webpage has examples.

Robert Spykerman

PatrikoDeAlasko gmail.com> writes:

There exist some papers about the implementation of Gforth. If you
are interested in embedded systems (Gforth EC), you probably should
read <http://www.forth-ev.de/wiki/doku.php/en:projects:r8c:r8c_forth>.

What kind of information are you missing?

You can print out the Gforth manual
<http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/gforth-0.6.2.ps.gz>

There are also general Forth books like Forth Application Techniques
(Elizabeth Rather), Forth Programmer's Handbook (Conklin&Rather),
Programming Forth (Stephen Pelc), and Thinking Forth (Leo Brodie).
Some of these books are available online.

Robert, Anton,

Thank-you for the info. I'll follow up on the links you've supplied.
At the moment I'm not involved with any embedded Forth projects. My
current interest in Forth is for desktop and server applications.

I'm glad to see a new standards document is on it's way. I've
downloaded the pdf for Forth200x and will take a look at it.

Dankon,
Patriko

On Mon, 26 May 2008 19:59:23 -0700 (PDT), PatrikoDeAlasko
gmail.com> wrote:

For a fully documented Forth with multitasking for Linux, see
http://www.mpeforth.com/vfxlinux.htm

Although this is technically an alpha release, people are
are already shipping applications!

Stephen