wmb@MITCH.ENG.SUN.COM (07/03/90)
> Luther Hoffman: > Do you know whether an OOF has been ever implemented as a compiler or > are they all implemented as interpreters? > Response by Gary Smith: > To my best knowledge (often suspect) there are no compiler implementations > of OOF. I believe that Steve Lewis's BORON OOF is implemented as a compiler, in that messages compile threaded code, with relatively early binding by default. It doesn't compile native machine code, if that's what you mean. BORON is described in the proceedings from one of the Rochester Forth Conferences; 1987 I think. BORON is sort of a superset of NEON. It runs on my Macintosh Forthmacs, and I think on some Forth-79 systems as well, but it has never been officially distributed. I have a feeling that the object-oriented extensions in HS Forth may be implemented as a compiler. Mitch Bradley