Any demos written in FORTH?

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Just what the topic says... I'm looking for demos written in the FORTH language.

added on the 2003-09-08 00:01:53 by legalize

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?

added on the 2003-09-08 04:52:35 by Shanethewolf

[http://www.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis400/forth/hworld.html]ahhhhhhhhhh[/url]

added on the 2003-09-08 06:31:39 by Buckethead

FORTH is a language that is about midway between assembler and C. I would think that it would make a good environment for 4K, 16K and 64K demos. If you do it right, FORTH can have a -very- small footprint for the basic environment (<1K for a small dictionary is very doable).

added on the 2003-09-08 18:12:10 by legalize

legalize, why go for an exotic language when you can do it in plain c? (i.e. it's possible to make small code with c and visual studio).

added on the 2003-09-09 02:40:55 by rasmus/loonies

I think it's simply for the fun of it. FORTH is mainly used in astronomy and personal use. If no-one has ever done it before he could be the first...I would personally prefer assembly language. It's easier to understand than FORTH. :-)

added on the 2003-09-09 06:06:25 by Corvus

FORTH seems to be rather confusing yeah. For example, it uses postfix notation which is rather disturbing.

5 50 + = 55 for example.. argh.. A bit like assembly though.

added on the 2003-09-09 08:32:53 by loaderror

and operations seem to be stack based as well.. try to figure out what this piece of code does

Code:


FLOOR5 DUP 5 < IF DROP 5 ELSE 1 - THEN ;

added on the 2003-09-09 08:34:33 by loaderror

There was a guy in Poland who was writing games for 8bit atari in forth.

added on the 2003-09-09 12:48:39 by Dzozef

FORTH is used in astronomy? Oh crud, I bet Dr. Evil is going to expect us to know it...

added on the 2003-09-09 15:43:18 by crusader

Not only in astronomy. Microcontrollers also. But really, you'll find more demos written in brainfuck than in fo(u)rth or fortran, Lisp, Prolog and Visual Basic. ;)

added on the 2003-09-09 17:29:59 by tomaes

FORTH was created for microcontroller type environments where resources like RAM and ROM space were extremely limited. Personally I like developing code in an interactive environment and FORTH is interactive, even in extremely tiny computing spaces. This would seem to be a win for a 4K demo, where you'd usually write it in assembly, but would lose out on being able to interactively develop the code.

added on the 2003-09-09 18:13:11 by legalize

maybe i'd code in Common Lisp if the 40M runtime was allowed ;)

(same nice feature of being able to interactively compile code)

added on the 2003-09-09 19:42:24 by _-_-__

knos: I know people who prototype in Common LISP (motto: it's -all- in there!) and then take the debugged algorithms and port to another language.

added on the 2003-09-09 21:50:02 by legalize

I was just considering doing that.. just got to hook up CMUCL to my main loop

added on the 2003-09-09 21:52:31 by _-_-__

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Any demos written in FORTH?

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