[chbot] Forth for embedded programming.

[Nick Rout]

I had loeliger's book but can no longer find it. I have many other forth
books too. I tried to implement loeliger's language on an amstrad 6128 but
failed. I did manage to get a forth going and it was many times faster than
the amstrad basic and far easier to write than assembler. The forth for the
amstrad, which I changed to use floppy instead of cassette, was very well
documented.

I even joined the forth SIG and read their impenetrable journal "forth
dimensions" for a year or two.

Would be great for robotics if you have very limited resources, but that's
not generally the case these days.

The readability is as good as the comments, similar to most other
programming.
On 3/11/2011 7:47 PM, "Robin Gilks" <robin at gilks.org> 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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