[Haskell-cafe] G machine in FORTH

[Dimitry Golubovsky]

Andrew Harris wrote:

>    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.
> 
>    Many developers think FORTH is nice, but the language is so, shall
> we say, "terse".
> 
>    I'm curious about what people think about this; having the
> expressiveness of a Haskell-like language that compiles to this
> environment might provide the best of both worlds, simple hardware
> architecture and an advanced programming language.
> 

IMHO Koopman's "TIGRE" (http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/tigre/) might be 
a close approximation of what you want.

I had some (rather non-serious) experience with Forth, and I had great 
pleasure reading Koopman's paper on TIGRE. Unfortunately I couldn't find 
any further development on this topic (although I saw some later 
Koopman's publications on Forth itself). I guess, only someone "thinking 
Forth" (as in the Brodie's book) might develop such a thing.

Dimitry Golubovsky
Middletown, CT