Which Forth implementation didn’t have an interpretation mode?
alexshpilkin opened this issue · 5 comments
I seem to remember there was a Forth implementation (called something like {letter}Forth) that didn’t have an interpretation mode: instead interactive input was compiled to a separate buffer and executed on an additional, explicit ;
. I also seem to remember it was approvingly mentioned (by Moore?) as one of the ways to extend Forth (“X didn’t like the text interpreter, so X did a Forth without it”); my brain says it was on the UltraTechnology website, but Google says no. I’ve looked through listings of Forth implementations, but to no avail.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
ColorForth from Moore not have interpretative mode.
My forth dialect :r4 neither
FreeForth works this way
http://christophe.lavarenne.free.fr/ff/
https://github.com/dancancode/FreeForth2
@lowfatcomputing wrote:
FreeForth works this way
That’s it, thank you!
@noqsi wrote:
I think the first was STOIC [...]
Yet I somehow read the whole STOICAL manual and missed this. Thanks for the historical note!