Re: [stack] Re: Joy noob checking in!

On Mon, 10 May 2010, William Tanksley, Jr wrote:

> Duke Normandin <[email protected]> wrote:
> > William Tanksley, Jr wrote:
> >> >> By the way, if you HAD been interested in bare metal, I'd have
> >> >> suggested learning colorForth and reimplementing it from scratch. Heh.
> >> > Why re-implement from scratch?
> >> Because it's the only way to really understand the bare metal -- and
> >> the only way to get a language ideal for manipulating YOUR machine.
>
> > I see! Re-implementing it in C? or Assembly Language?
>
> In itself. And machine language -- see the source for Rainbow Forth
> for an example (the white text that looks like assembly language is
> actually a comment). Personally, I'd prefer to first implement an
> assembler -- it makes it a bit harder to bootstrap on a new machine,
> but if one tests carefully that problem can be avoided. But using raw
> machine code for the bootstrap code does make the source code shorter,
> as long as the reader allows himself to trust the bootstrap code
> (which few humans can read).

To re-cap - I would need to customize RainbowForth for the particular
machine/CPU I'm using, using a combination of RainbowForth and
Assembler. Which means that I would first have to learn to program in
Assembly language for my target CPU. Ummm... Maybe it's easier than it
sounds. ;)
-- 
duke