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bjForth v0.0.3 is out!

github.com Release v0.0.3 路 bahmanm/bjforth

馃帀 A good deal of words and primitives were introduced in this release along improving the user-friendliness of bjForth. 鉁旓笍 Some prominent changes include: Looping construct (WHILE, UNTIL, AGAIN) C...

Release v0.0.3 路 bahmanm/bjforth

I'm thrilled to announce the release of bjForth v0.0.3 馃帀

There's been a a heap of improvements and additions compared to the last release.

What's best is that they are automatically tested every time a change is pushed 馃槑

I dare you to Grab the latest tarball and hack yourself some serious Forth 馃槃

13 comments

  • Not knowing forth, why would you ever want this language?

    • Besides the fun of stretching your mental muscles to think in a different paradigm, Forth is usually used in the embedded devices domain (like that of the earlier Mars rover I forgot the name of).

      This project for me is mostly for the excitement and joy I get out of implementing a Forth (which is usually done in Assembler and C) on the JVM. While I managed to keep the semantics the same the underlying machinery is vastly different from, say, GForth. I find this quite a pleasing exercise.

      Last but not least, if you like concatenative but were unable to practice fun on the JVM, bjForth may be what you're looking for.

      Hope this answers your question.

      • It looks to me to be the same paradigm as pure functional languages, is this false? The only difference to lisp seems syntactic.

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