Tag: forth
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Twenty-Seventh, the Language
I have had an irresistible idea lately. What if you had forth but you had 256 stacks. We can’t start there, what if it was based on the venerable MUF(Multi user forth) language, which has some relatively simple typing and generally provides a higher level interface, ameliorating one of the biggest issues I personally have…
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Forth and Optimization
Forth is a strange old language. It’s among a relatively small number of concatenative languages that achieved any measure of success. Anyway, this isn’t something we’re going to go into much here because we’re thinking about something nearly tangential to the language itself. How you can make it fast. Stacks are somewhat slow compared to…