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- From: jimlynch@netcom.com (Jim Lynch)
- Subject: FORTH-83 for Atari 8-bit; anyone interested?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.124555.2212@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 12:45:55 GMT
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- I wrote one; it's very cool. Problem is, I didn't write a manual...
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- It has its (traditional) compiler and interpreter rewritten in assembler...
- it has its I/O (the FORTH words KEY and EMIT) written so it can be redirected
- to different IOCBs...
- it has ADA-style exception handling set up so you can redirect particular
- error conditions so you can recover (or at least exit gracefully); you can
- also define your own exceptional conditions...
- the compiler and interpreter can be stripped out of applications (this means
- no runtime file and no extra baggage!)
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- If sufficient interest exists, I will look into writing a manual for the
- features I have added and releasing the forth system and the manual as
- shareware... for the shareware fee, I will include full source code and
- the ability to make stand-alone apps. Runs under OSS-Dos.
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