Re: [stack] Barebone implementation of concatenative language in c or c++

John Cowan <[email protected]> Wed, 12 May 2010 13:13:26 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.concatenative
Message-ID <[email protected]>
William Tanksley, Jr scripsit:

> Ah, yes; if you don't want/need GC you're likely well off to use a decent
> embeddable Forth with an object system, and FICL is designed for and has
> been extensively used for exactly that. If you needed/were-OK-with GC you'd
> be fine with Scheme itself, or Lua. (I don't know of any concatenative/GC
> language that's been designed to be embedded, which is something of a pity.)

Let me put in a plug for Chibi Scheme, which is a full R5RS Scheme (with
GC, of course) that is designed for embedding.  It's a small but fast
bytecode interpreter in the style of Lua, but less limited.
(Not that Lua doesn't have its own good points.)

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