Moving Forth: a series on writing Forth kernels

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benji-york · 3h ago

Some trivia for those who might not be aware: the tile of the series is a reference to the beloved 1981 book "Starting FORTH" which you can now read online at https://www.forth.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Starting-FO...

Do yourself a favor and read a few chapters.

sitkack · 1h ago

I would also recommend "R. G. Loeliger Threaded Interpretive Languages Their Design And Implementation" between these two books the whole beauty of Forth and their implementation should just click.

Forth isn't one of those languages that you _use_. You extend the language from the inside, so you need to know how your Forth is implemented. I'd say it is the only language where users of the language could all recreate the language.

Verdex · 1h ago

Also recommending Thinking Forth by Leo Brodie. The book feels like it was written in the 2010s but the original publish date was mid 80s.

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Moving Forth: a series on writing Forth kernels

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