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gforth-0.7.3p4

ANSI/200x Forth interpreter and compiler

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Description

Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth language. It works nicely with the Emacs editor, offers some nice features such as input completion and history, backtraces, a decompiler and a powerful locals facility, and it even has a manual. Gforth combines traditional implementation techniques with newer techniques for portability and performance: its inner interpreter is direct threaded with several optimizations, but you can also use a traditional-style indirect threaded interpreter.

Package information

Ports path
lang/gforth
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse <jasper@openbsd.org>
Categories
lang
Available flavors
None listed
Only for architectures
amd64, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, sparc64

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