Re: [gforth] New member, new Forther

[Anton Ertl]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 02:01:29PM -0500, Owen wrote:
> I was wondering why gforth was written

In the beginning, the idea was to have a free and portable
implementation of Forth-94 (ANS Forth) that should be the
Forth-94-compatible successor of fig-Forth and F83 (a popular system
that implemented the Forth-83 standard).  The goals are outlined in
<http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/Docs-html/Goals.html>,
and you can read more about the ideas behind it and the original
implementation approach in

http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/papers/ertl93.ps.gz

- anton