RE: New Linux 4word

Mark Slicker <[email protected]> Thu, 7 Apr 2005 13:32:51 -0400 (EDT)

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.forth.colorforth
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On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, [iso-8859-1] Frédéric DUBOIS wrote:

>> ASCII is the bed-rock of computers. Every other data format
>> is transitory.
>> The colorForth kernel is written in ASCII. [...]
>
> That's an accident. ColorForth2 will be written in ColorForth ( well,
> perhaps not exactly, but you know what I mean: it will be able to compile
> himself from it's source).
> A propos, Chuck seems to be very busy; IMVVVHO the CF community here should
> consider doing itself this project to accelerate things. But that's just my
> VVVHO.

I agree, and in fact I have started on this path by writing a colorForth 
compiler in colorForth. The environment itself has not seen a signifigant 
evolution since its original release, and that is disapointing. I 
attribute this to the majority of source code defining colorForth being 
in the kernel, in x86 assembler, rather anything to do the source format 
of colorForth.

Mark