5 Apr
1999
5 Apr
'99
2:10 p.m.
ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:
Hi
There were several Forth machines done over the years,
since the basic concept is so simple. You can even buy
Forth cores done in gate arrays ( '51 cores are also
quite common ). Harris made one that was used quite
often for space applications because it was fast
and could run with smaller amounts of code ( a feature
of Forth ).
Since the hole thing started with LISP, I find it
interesting that many have called Forth a backwards
LISP ( although, they are truly quite different ).
I always like debugging Forth code over debugging
LISP code because Forth code follows a more natural
order across the page. I found that with LISP, that
I'd have to put a lot of indentions and carriage returns
to follow the flow.
Dwight
want something
that was microcoded to run Pascal? Are there any other
languages that have gotten microcoded into a processor?
There have certainly been Forth machines. A processor with an
architecture designed to run Forth efficiently (2 stacks, etc) and
machine instructions that are the primitives of Forth.
-tony