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RfD: Make ENVIRONMENT? obsolescent 243 99 (7/4/2012 9:21:22 PM) comp.lang.forth Make ENVIRONMENT? obsolecent ============================ 20120704 Initial proposal Problem ======= The Forth-94 standard specified an environmental query system, which allows to query the system ... Bernd

[forth200x] RfD: Drop execution semantics of LEAVE and UNLOOP 11 46 (5/9/2012 5:42:13 PM) comp.lang.forth Problem: LEAVE and UNLOOP are defined to have no interpretation semantics, but an execution semantics. This implies that ['] LEAVE EXECUTE is equivalent to LEAVE within a loop body. I checked Gforth, bigFo... Bernd

Redesigning Forth's word headers 25 39 (5/8/2012 1:28:33 AM) comp.lang.forth There have been some header ideas for Gforth from Anton around for years, featuring an intelligent COMPILE, and some sort of quite-unified token, but not-quite-so, as this unified token was the nt, and would ... Bernd

CfV: Xchar wordset (formatting repost) 0 37 (2/14/2010 8:24:04 PM) comp.lang.forth [This is a formatting repost to prevent line breaks, all tabs are replaced by spaces. Also, test cases have been added] This is actually a poll about how widely the proposal is implemented and how popular it i... Bernd

CfV: Xchar wordset 58 38 (2/13/2010 7:36:38 PM) comp.lang.forth This is actually a poll about how widely the proposal is implemented and how popular it is among the programmers. It is called a CfV (call-for-votes) because the process is inspired by the Usenet Rdf/CfV proce... Bernd

[ANN] bigForth mailing lists 0 44 (12/31/2009 5:46:39 PM) comp.lang.forth As Anton already mentioned, the ChaosSolution.org mailing lists no longer work. I also moved the bigForth mailing lists away. There are two: bigforth-devel@lists.sourceforge.net bigforth-minos@lists.source... Bernd

RfD: Xchar wordset, version 4 0 32 (8/23/2009 7:33:42 PM) comp.lang.forth RfD: Xchar wordset 23 August 2009, Bernd Paysan Change history: 20090823 A few more edits to get fourth version 20090717 Edits made to bring proposal in shape 20090325 Edits made at Forth200x review meeting 2... Bernd

RfD: XCHAR wordset (Version 3) 67 36 (11/23/2008 9:36:35 PM) comp.lang.forth At the last meeting, we decided to bring the XCHAR wordset to progress to CfV, so before we do this, here's the current document. The Xchar proposal is one foundation for i18n, so it should be through the proc... Bernd

New Gforth snapshots 1 54 (10/26/2008 9:54:25 PM) comp.lang.forth Hi all of you who are waiting for the next release: I've created new snapshots, source and Windows setup.exe: http://www.paysan.nom/~bernd/gforth-0.6.9-20081026.tar.gz http://www.paysan.nom/~bernd/gforth-0.6.... Bernd

Gforth snapshot for Windows 1 62 (10/6/2008 9:21:19 PM) comp.lang.forth There's now a working Gforth snapshot available with maybe some minor issues. You can find it here: http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/gforth-0.6.9-20081006.exe I've given it a small amount of testing. Bugs I alread... Bernd

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Latest from Chuck's Blog 12 31 (8/14/2012 5:35:07 PM) comp.lang.forth >> GreenArrays has received more chips. Some 35,000 in inventory (That's 5,000,000 computers). Buy now and avoid the Christmas rush. So, they must be selling some, which means somebody must want them. Neat... jasondamisch (252)

continue equivalent in Forth? 64 48 (8/19/2012 2:28:42 AM) comp.lang.forth When I am in a begin-while-repeat loop, I sometimes would like to go to the top of the loop. The "continue" keyword in C is what would help me perfectly here. Is there a "continue" like word in Forth? ... programmingkidx (18)

Comparative Productivity of Programming Languages 164 105 (8/22/2012 4:43:56 AM) comp.lang.forth Today I read an Dr.Dobb's article named=20 "The Comparative Productivity of Programming Languages" They say "The problem is that measuring productivity is invariably viewed a= s more of an art than scienti... visualforth (74)

abstraction: do haskell and lisp beat forth in abstraction? or no? 38 54 (8/22/2012 8:20:02 PM) comp.lang.forth curious if forth can be as high level? ... visploveslisp (160)

Single Step Debugging, why or why not? 21 43 (8/30/2012 6:27:20 PM) comp.lang.forth I thought that I had my brain wrapped around the issue of single stepping a= nd why it may be discouraged in Forth. But, then recently my brain went 't= hump' and straightened itself out. So, I wanted to as... jasondamisch (252)

[Forth200x] Current Standings: S>F and F>S 1 41 (8/31/2012 10:30:04 AM) comp.lang.forth Poll standings See below for voting instructions. Systems [ ] conforms to ANS Forth. VFX Forth (Windows, OSX, Linux, DOS ...) (Stephen Pelc) MPE Forth cross compilers (all targets) (Stephen P... anton (5253)

Buffer access with bounds checking... 25 57 (8/31/2012 1:51:58 PM) comp.lang.forth While writing about memory buffer overruns in a different thread earlier today, I was inspired to have a bash at writing some code that would allow safe read/write access to memory buffers. I came up with ... markrobertwills (871)

GA144 Instruction Timing 26 42 (8/11/2012 10:54:24 PM) comp.lang.forth Anyone know the timing of a unext instruction when it is looping? I think it would just be 2.4 ns with no adder for the instruction fetch since there would be no instruction fetch. The data book talks a... gnuarm (2644)

Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape 60 48 (8/7/2012 1:21:33 PM) comp.lang.forth I'm working on a retro computing project, a 6502 Forth implementation for t= he Commodore PET 2001. https://github.com/chitselb/pettil if you're curiou= s. The goal is for the language to be fast, tight, an... chitselb (40)

Copyright issues with Forth200x draft 20 37 (8/3/2012 10:34:11 PM) comp.lang.forth While some of the tests in Annex G of the Forth200x draft may be new and specifically written for the draft, I recognized that some of them come from copyrighted Hayes core code. The issue is that the Ha... do_not_have6502 (201)