Erlang + Forth?!?

[James Hague]

> Ok what about Forth, the forth has the tiny interpreter (talking >about a few bytes). I have had a project
>that has been in my mind for years. That  is to rewrite
>the erlang runtime system in forth

Oddly enough, I have thought about this as well.  It is relatively 
easy to write a machine code generating, optimizing compiler for a 
subset of Forth.  You get some big wins when it comes to writing an 
emulator, such as tail recursion and very lightweight subroutine 
calls, plus you can test interactively.  This kind of application is 
what Forth is perfect for.

I've written a few mini-forths in Erlang.  It would be interesting to 
take one all the way through the optimization stage.

James


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