Gforth

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Gforth
Original author(s) Bernd Paysan
Anton Ertl
Developer(s) GNU Project
Initial releasemid-1992;33 years ago (1992) [1]
Stable release
0.7.9_20250101 [2]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 1 January 2025;7 months ago (1 January 2025)
Repository
Written in C, Forth
Operating system Unix-like, Windows, MS-DOS, OS/2
Type Interpreter
License GNU GPLv3
Website gnu.org/s/gforth/

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. [3]

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History

The Gforth project was started in mid-1992 by Bernd Paysan and Anton Ertl. Gforth descends from bigFORTH and fig-Forth [1] [4] [5] Gforth is fully ANS FORTH compliant. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Origin - Gforth Manual". complang.tuwien.ac.at. 2 November 2008. Retrieved 26 September 2022.
  2. ↑ "0.7.9_20250101". 1 January 2025. Retrieved 4 January 2025.
  3. 1 2 directory.fsf.org, ed. (14 June 2014). "GNU Forth". Free Software Foundation.{{cite web}}: |editor= has generic name (help)
  4. ↑ "bigFORTH Forth System+MINOS GUI in Forth". bigforth.sourceforge.net.
  5. ↑ "The Last Fig-Forth Ever". home.hccnet.nl.


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