Re: what kind of non microconroller app are done in forth?

According to Jonah Thomas  <jethomas5@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>:
> I'd start with a tool that parses traditional EBNF.

For Java, the "natural" thing to do would not be implementing a new
parser and compiler for the Java syntax, but a virtual machine for the
compiled Java code (the "bytecode", aka ".class format"). The tool which
converts Java source code into bytecode is provided by Sun (it is the
"Java compiler") and it is already written in Java (i.e. provided as
bytecode).

Turning bytecode into Forth code is not difficult: the bytecode runs
over an abstraction which happens to be a stack machine. But you need a
good garbage collector and most of the work is implementing a proper
standard library compatible with the standard one from Sun (and it is
_huge_ !).


The same applies for C#. Implementing the virtual machine means that
you immediately sup****t all the languages which target that machine.


	--Thomas ****in