I always thought Forth was way cool, but I've never managed to get anything significant written in it. I think that Forth has echoes of the "point-free" style in Haskell, but Haskell is a lot friendlier.
Is the Forth environment part of the hardware? If your Forth is just a threaded interpreter written in software then it seems wasteful to compile Haskell down to an interpreted environment. If it's part of the hardware then I think it would be (at the very least) an interesting exercise. Mike > Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 17:25:24 -0400 > From: Andrew Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Andrew Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi - > > Brace yourself... I work in an environment where FORTH is still used. > > I've been thinking about writing a G-machine interpreter in FORTH > so that one could write Haskell like programs that would compile down > and run "graph-reduction" style on the FORTH machine. > > Many developers think FORTH is nice, but the language is so, shall > we say, "terse". > > I'm curious about what people think about this; having the > expressiveness of a Haskell-like language that compiles to this > environment might provide the best of both worlds, simple hardware > architecture and an advanced programming language. > > let me know what you think, > -andrew _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
