ZmForth! / commentary

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2009-10-11T15:43:58-04:00

How log time you spend on implementation?

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2009-10-11T15:46:47-04:00

Try spend 10 minutes to run winner of IOCCC in 1992 year:

http://www.ioccc.org/years.html

(search for buzzard.2 on this page, read buzzard.2.hint, demo[1-6].th).

This funny stuff.

Comment on "ZmForth!"

2009-10-12T08:14:48-04:00

That is a fascinatingly small base stack machine implementation! It's pretty amazing how tiny one can make it, even if not going for obfuscation.

I'm not sure how long mine took exactly -- maybe two months? I had to start by writing the assembler, then I took a long break in the middle, and finished by spending a lot of extra time being pedantic (implementing the double-width word set, passing the ANS Forth test suite I found, etc).

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2009-10-25T15:31:51-04:00

Thanks for replay!

I want in future also make my own Forth machine (as well as basic Lisp interpreter).

One of hobby forth realization based on buzzard.2 example. Author say this in doc and surprise when buzzard.2 author replay to him:

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2452#comment-36818