26 Nov
2007
26 Nov
'07
5:27 p.m.
On Nov 26, 2007, at 1:11 PM, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
I really, really like FORTH. Any old SPARCstation makes a great
FORTH learning vehicle (OpenBOOT), but I opted to build a small Z80
single-board computer and ported Brad Rodriguez' CamelFORTH to it as a
machine on which to learn the language. I've had great fun with it,
and the language is VERY powerful. I've extended it quite a bit;
written a full-screen editor, drivers for new hardware (I2C flash, VF
display, I2C tone generator, etc) etc etc. I hope to add analog I/O
sometime soon.
I have a few Harris RTX2000 chips (essentially a native FORTH
instruction set...very neat) but haven't done anything with them yet.
I really need more free time.
Brodie's books are good; they will serve you well. Here are some
URLs to get you going:
General information and history:
http://www.colorforth.com/HOPL.html
http://www.ultratechnology.com/1xforth.htm
http://www.ultratechnology.com/moore4th.htm
Implementation:
http://www.camelforth.com/news.php
http://retroforth.org/
http://forthos.org/
http://www.taygeta.com/forthcomp.html
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
If one wanted
to work with an extensible language, Forth is the most
flexible. It is also one of the best for understanding more complex
programming concepts. It isn't that it has them built in, it is that
it
contains all the building blocks needed to create them.
Forth is definitely one of the other things that I'm looking at, but
it's
style is rather putting me off. I have a 68HC11-based board that
comes up in
it, and should probably hook it up and play with it one of these
days, or
get an emulator going, or something, just to try and get a handle on
it.
If you know of any online resources for that language I'd sure like to
hear
about them. I did snag two of Leo Brodie's books, for starters, but
not a
whole lot else.