On Mar 22, 11:05 pm, Duke Normandin <dukeofp...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, Frank Buss wrote:
>
> > Duke Normandin wrote:
>
> > > I tried it! Doesn't work worth a sh-t on OS X 10.5.2 ;( I'm doing
enough
> > > friggin around as it is right now without trying to get _something
else_
> > > to work ;) Looks like I might have to use a WinDoze box - or how
about
> > > BigForth on -- ?? a FreeBSD box! Anybody ever tried that?
>
> > You could try FICL. Not 100% ANS Forth and not the fastest, but nearly
pure
> > ANSI C and should compile with XCode.
>
> > If you try it and if you want to implement some graphics output,
please use
> > SDL (http://www.libsdl.org/)
, then in theory it should be possible to
> > compile it for Windows and Linux as well, which would be nice, because
then
> > we could have a platform independant Forth with GUI output.
>
> I just DLed the SDL stuff. I have the FICL source already. I'm going to
> give it a shot sometime soon. Thanks for the suggestions. Happy Easter!
> --
> Duke Normandin
> dukeofp...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
Duke,
FICL is ready to go as OSPREY Forth. It compiles under xCode. There
is a command line application and an example of a windowed
application. It is creates an interface to Cocoa. The code seems
somewhat odd to me at this point in time but I haven't completely
"grokked" it yet.
Also because FICL is a token interpreter it is quite slow. Something
on the order of 4 times slower than gForth ITC. It is beautiful
source code however and was built for a specific purpose. To integrate
a Forth like language into 'c' programs. I am reviewing it as a
tutorial.
osprey Forth is available here.
http://www.customvisualdesigns.com/Downloads/ospreyforth.tgz.
Brian
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