ns@cat.cmu.edu (Nicholas Spies) (10/15/88)
I am familiar with both MacForth and Mach2 for the Mac; both have their strong points (MacForth has an excellent editor and object-oriented extension package, etc whereas Mach2 is subroutine-threaded and provides an easy interace to call any ROM functions, etc). Both support file editing and can be used to develop 'real' applications just like 'real' languages--only perhaps taking less time.. :-) See MacTutor for monthly Forth column to see some of the things one can do... -- Nicholas Spies ns@cat.cmu.edu.arpa Center for Design of Educational Computing Carnegie Mellon University
jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr) (10/16/88)
In article <1031@microsoft.UUCP> t-stephp@microsoft.UUCP (Stephen Poole) writes: >Is anyone familiar with any of the Macintosh implementations of Forth? >I've been playing with a program called Swivel 3D on my Mac II and >discovered, to my amazement, that it was written in (if I recall >correctly) MacForth. This is an extensive, impressive package that >runs quite quickly, and if MacForth is capable of producing such a slick >program then I'm definitely interested in it. Are other people using >any Forths on the Mac for development? What are the strong and weak >points? How about source-level debugging? Are the environments better >than the 64x16 "screens" I've dealt with in other Forths? > > Steve, Forth has come a long way on the 68000. The BEST 68k Forth is JForth from Delta Research, which unfortunately only runs on Amiga. Mach2 ain't half bad. There is extensive discussion of MacIntosh Forths on the official telecom outlet of the Forth Interest Group, the FIG RT on GEnie. The FIG RT Software Lib also includes a PD Forth for Mac. >-- >-- Stephen D. Poole -- t-stephp@microsoft.UUCP -- Mac II Fanatic -- >-- -- >-- I'm just an Oregon Tech Software Engineering co-op at Micro- -- >-- soft. Believe me, nobody here pays attention to my opinions! -- That's ok, Steve, us Forthers don't give the sweat off our balls to Microsoft! {}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{} {} {} {} jax@well ." Sysop, Realtime Control and Forth Board" {} {} jax@chariot ." (303) 278-0364 300/1200 8-n-1 24 hrs." {} {} JAX on GEnie ." Tell them JAX sent you!" {} {} {} {}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}