Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!well!jax
From: jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Forth Compilation (again) ?
Summary: jax responds
Keywords: compilers, silicon, composers, JFAR
Message-ID: <12988@well.UUCP>
Date: 3 Aug 89 04:38:18 GMT
References: <114600003@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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	Forth syntax compilers have been around for a while. See JFAR
IV/3 page 379 "Compiling Forth for Performance" by Thomas Almy.

	Some of Silicon Composers' Forth systems, I believe, have partaken
more of the nature of Forth cross-compilers than "live" Forth systems.
I may be wrong on this latter. 

	New Micros Forth for the MC68HC11 is an "almost" compiler, the
code bodies being generated in RAM and shifted out to EPROM sans headers.

	The advantages that drive people into the arms of Forth are to a 
certain extent negated by the compiler environment. It's that quick
feedback that makes Forth a dream for control projects.

	But Forth compilers certainly will continue to be written for
special applications, such as extrememly high performance realtime
systems, and I encourage you to pursue this if you are interested.

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