Software:Gforth
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Short description: Free implementation of the Forth programming language
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| Original author(s) | Bernd Paysan Anton Ertl |
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| Developer(s) | GNU Project |
| Initial release | mid-1992[1] |
| Stable release | 0.7.3
/ June 14, 2014 |
| Preview release | 0.7.9_20200213
/ February 13, 2020 |
| Written in | C, Forth |
| Operating system | Unix-like, Windows, MS-DOS, OS/2 |
| Type | Interpreter |
| License | GNU GPLv3 |
| Website | gnu |
Gforth is a free and portable implementation of the Forth programming language for Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows, and other operating systems. A primary goal of Gforth is to adhere to the ANS Forth standard. Gforth is free software as part of the GNU Project.[2]
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 is fully ANS FORTH compliant.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Origin - Gforth Manual". complang.tuwien.ac.at. 2 November 2008. http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/Docs-html/Origin.html.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 directory.fsf.org, ed (14 June 2014). "GNU Forth". Free Software Foundation. http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/gforth.
- ↑ "bigFORTH Forth System+MINOS GUI in Forth". bigforth.sourceforge.net. http://bigforth.sourceforge.net/.
- ↑ "The Last Fig-Forth Ever". home.hccnet.nl. https://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst/figforth.html.
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