[chbot] Forth for embedded programming.

[Mark Atherton]

Robin, you are making me feel old.

I did one for a 6809 (still have the board).

Also, just found the hardback in the library.

Remember doing a recursive binary tree search - just for the 
hallibut, cod that for a game of soldiers, but it worked...

-Mark

At 07:46 p.m. 3/11/2011, you wrote:

> >
> > Has anyone had any real world experience with forth?
> > Its one of those ones that always seemed like it might be worth playing
> > with but I never got around to it.
> >
> > Is it still a practical language? Worth the effort?
> > C
>
>I wrote a Forth interpreter many years ago for a Z80 CPU - hmmm must have
>been about 25 years ago.
>
>Was a fun job as once you have the primitives you can build your own
>language elements (I recall being well pleased with a switch statement
>referencing items off the stack.
>
>I have a very good book available for loan (i.e. it *MUST* be returned in
>good condition) called "Threaded Interpreive Languages" by R G Loeliger
>which funnily enough has an implementation in Z80 assembler :)
>
>I can't remember much about the implementation apart from the speed and
>small code size which were quite amazing.
>
>--
>Robin Gilks
>
>
>
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