Gforth

Gforth
Original author(s) Bernd Paysan, Anton Ertl
Developer(s) GNU Project
Initial release mid-1992 (1992)[1]
Stable release
0.7.3 / June 14, 2014 (2014-06-14)
Repository git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gforth.git
Written in C, Forth
Operating system Unix-like, Microsoft Windows, DOS, OS/2
Type Interpreter
License GNU GPLv3
Website gnu.org/s/gforth/

Gforth is a project to develop an implementation for ANSI Forth. It is part of the GNU Project.[2]

Goals

Gforth's goals can be split into several subgoals:

History

The Gforth project was started in mid-1992 by Bernd Paysan and Anton Ertl. Gforth descends from bigFORTH and fig-Forth[1][3][4] Gforth uses GCC to compile a fast direct or indirect threaded Forth; Gforth is fully ANSI FORTH compliant.[2]

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