Gforth
Gforth is a free and portable implementation of the Forth programming language for Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows, and other operating systems. A primary goal of Gforth is to adhere to the ANS Forth standard. Gforth is free software as part of the GNU Project.[2]
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| Original author(s) | Bernd Paysan Anton Ertl |
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| Developer(s) | GNU Project |
| Initial release | mid-1992[1] |
| Stable release | 0.7.3
/ June 14, 2014 |
| Preview release | 0.7.9_20200213
/ February 13, 2020 |
| Repository |  |
| Written in | C, Forth |
| Operating system | Unix-like, Windows, MS-DOS, OS/2 |
| Type | Interpreter |
| License | GNU GPLv3 |
| Website | gnu |
History
The Gforth project was started in mid-1992 by Bernd Paysan and Anton Ertl. Gforth descends from bigFORTH and fig-Forth[1][3][4] Gforth uses GCC to compile a fast direct or indirect threaded Forth; Gforth is fully ANS FORTH compliant.[2]
References
- Origin - Gforth Manual
- directory.fsf.org, ed. (14 June 2014). "GNU Forth". Free Software Foundation.
- http://bigforth.sourceforge.net/ by Bernd Paysan
- http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst/figforth.html
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