Shame it didn't keep the coolest part of colorForth - the colors!
You change the meaning of word by changing their colors (is it a a 'runtime' function, macro or number? green, cyan or yellow), and the when you input the colors you also let the editor in a sense pre-compile the code so the interpreter becomes insanely fast.
The colors are in reality a byte prefix that acts as an index into a jump table so hardly any interpreting needs to happen, almost like a half-jit'ed language.
Also uses a weird encoding for text instead of ascii - it's a variable sized shannon encoding to make the most frequent english characters take fewer bits, from 4 to 7 bits.
This is imo the real spirit of Forth - simplify, simplify, simplify, make it an exact custom fit for your needs, screw standards.
Shame it didn't keep the coolest part of colorForth - the colors! You change the meaning of word by changing their colors (is it a a 'runtime' function, macro or number? green, cyan or yellow), and the when you input the colors you also let the editor in a sense pre-compile the code so the interpreter becomes insanely fast.
The colors are in reality a byte prefix that acts as an index into a jump table so hardly any interpreting needs to happen, almost like a half-jit'ed language.
Also uses a weird encoding for text instead of ascii - it's a variable sized shannon encoding to make the most frequent english characters take fewer bits, from 4 to 7 bits.
This is imo the real spirit of Forth - simplify, simplify, simplify, make it an exact custom fit for your needs, screw standards.