[Oberon] Forth and Pberon

[greim]

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>     1. Re: FORTH (erikc)
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> No.  But this might be helpful if you are willing to translate from C.
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> http://ficl.sourceforge.net/ficl.html
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> erikc

There is another C-one

http://sourceforge.net/projects/fork001/

using only 12 (!) assembler commands afaik.

First i sent the original question to Mr. Sedlacek, he posted it here, 
so here my 5 cents:

The idea behind was not only to write a Forth interpreter in Oberon,
but to use Forth as intermediate assembler. As at the Oberon day some 
suggested for example a P-code interpreter or similar.

Mr Ertl published some years ago (1997) a paper for an Oberon Forth parser:
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/papers/ertl97.ps.gz

There are some Forth processors for FPGAs  around.
http://www.ultratechnology.com/4thvhdl.htm

For the Propeller parallel processor there is a Forth available

http://code.google.com/p/propforth/

and even Chuck Moore the inventor of Forth is no selling a processor
http://greenarraychips.com/
with 144 cores each running a forth interpreter.

Other Forth interpreters are also commercial available for several 
embedded systems. for example

http://www.forth.com/swiftforth/

I know that at the ETH a parallel Oberon on FPGA project is running for 
directly generating VHDL from an High Level Oberon Style language.

But maybe a Forth generator as intermediate step will make things less 
complicate. And as resumee of the Oberon Day 2011, i for mee learned, 
that we need the most simply tools with clear and straight forward 
interfaces to solve the "software crisis".


Kind Regards

Markus Greim