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From: kma@rhi.hi.is (Kurt M Alonso)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: General questions
Message-ID: <1430@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 16 Dec 89 14:25:10 GMT
Organization: University of Iceland
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	I'm a newcomer to forth and to this newsgroup, so the question
	I pose here has possibly trivial answer. Anyway, here it comes:

	It seems to me that by the characteristics of forth, it should be
	a suitable language for implementing interpreters for languages
	that are difficult to compile without restricting their operativeness.
	The languages I'm thinking of are Prolog, Lisp or fully operative
	object-oriented languages. Eventually, a good way (if not the best)
	of implementing such languages is by means of threaded code and
	dictionnaries, so at first sight, forth should be a good 
	implementation language. But the litterature doesn't mention 
	such possibility, so I wonder if I'm wrong. Could anybody tell me 
	if any work has been done in this field?


	Just one more question. Could anybody tell me where I can get
	a PD forth implementation for the 80x86 family ?

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Kurt M. Alonso                 University of Iceland, Reykjavik
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