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From: jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Macintosh Forths
Summary: Where the Forth Elite Meet
Message-ID: <7382@well.UUCP>
Date: 16 Oct 88 01:36:46 GMT
References: <1031@microsoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
Lines: 36
Keywords:MacIntosh,FIG,RCFB,axolotls

In article <1031@microsoft.UUCP> t-stephp@microsoft.UUCP (Stephen Poole) writes:
>Is anyone familiar with any of the Macintosh implementations of Forth?
>I've been playing with a program called Swivel 3D on my Mac II and
>discovered, to my amazement, that it was written in (if I recall
>correctly) MacForth.  This is an extensive, impressive package that
>runs quite quickly, and if MacForth is capable of producing such a slick
>program then I'm definitely interested in it.  Are other people using
>any Forths on the Mac for development?  What are the strong and weak
>points?  How about source-level debugging?  Are the environments better
>than the 64x16 "screens" I've dealt with in other Forths?
>
>
	Steve, Forth has come a long way on the 68000. The BEST 68k
Forth is JForth from Delta Research, which unfortunately only
runs on Amiga. Mach2 ain't half bad. There is extensive discussion
of MacIntosh Forths on the official telecom outlet of the Forth Interest
Group, the FIG RT on GEnie.  The FIG RT Software Lib also includes a
PD Forth for Mac.

>-- 
>-- Stephen D. Poole -- t-stephp@microsoft.UUCP -- Mac II Fanatic --
>--                                                               --
>-- I'm just an Oregon Tech Software Engineering co-op at  Micro- --
>-- soft.  Believe me, nobody here pays attention to my opinions! --


	That's ok, Steve, us Forthers don't give the sweat off our
	balls to Microsoft!

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