[Haskell-cafe] G machine in FORTH

karczma at info.unicaen.fr karczma at info.unicaen.fr
Wed Jun 1 17:40:30 EDT 2005


Andrew Harris writes: 

>    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.

> let me know what you think,

Nice. 

Just two questions. Does your FORTH has a decent memory management system,
permitting to implement GC? 

Do you have some idea how to modify the standard threading execution of
FORTH in order to have laziness? 

Jerzy Karczmarczuk 



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