├── .gitignore ├── README.md └── LICENSE /.gitignore: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | *.html 2 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /README.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # Awesome Forth 2 | 3 | [![Awesome](https://awesome.re/badge.svg)](https://awesome.re) 4 | 5 | Forth is a stack-based, imperative and reflective programming language 6 | that comes with its own interactive development environment. Forth is 7 | famous (and infamous) for its extreme simplicity and flexibility. It 8 | excels at the rapid prototyping of low-level software and and has been 9 | implemented for an extremely wide range of platforms. 10 | 11 | ## Books 12 | 13 | + [Starting Forth](https://www.forth.com/starting-forth/) by Leo Brodie is a classic tutorial and textbook, often considered the best introduction. [Free PDF] 14 | + [Thinking Forth](http://www.dnd.utwente.nl/~tim/colorforth/Leo-Brodie/thinking-forth.pdf) of best introduction book on Forth mindset [Free PDF] 15 | + [Programming Forth](http://www.mpeforth.com/arena/ProgramForth.pdf) Free PDF 16 | + [Beginners Guide](http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/551.jvn.fall01/primer.htm) 17 | + [Forth Primer](http://ficl.sourceforge.net/pdf/Forth_Primer.pdf) 18 | 19 | ## Videos 20 | 21 | + [A Little Bit of Forth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6FflPMHZP4) A great introduction 22 | + [Over the Shoulder 1 - Text Preprocessing in Forth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvrE2ZGe-rs) A great example of how elegant and simple forth can be in the hands of an experienced forth programmer (Samuel A. Falvo II) 23 | + [Chuck Moore](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chuck+moore+forth) Lots of videos showing unconventional approaches to programming by inventor of Forth himself 24 | + [SVFIG talks](http://forth.org/svfig/videos/) 25 | 26 | ## Chips 27 | 28 | + [Novix NC4000/NC4016](https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/stack_computers/sec4_4.html) -- First Forth chip by Moore and others at Novix Inc., 1985 29 | + [Harris RTX 2000](https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/stack_computers/sec4_5.html) -- 16-bit stack computer based on the Novix, 1988 30 | + [Sh-Boom](https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/chip-hall-of-fame-computer-cowboys-shboom-processor) from Computer Cowboys (Moore and Russell Fish), 1988 31 | + [GreenArrays GA144](http://www.greenarraychips.com/home/products/index.html) -- 1x1cm chip with 144 cores 32 | + [The J1 Forth CPU](https://excamera.com/sphinx/fpga-j1.html) -- Forth CPU for FPGAs in 200 lines of Verilog 33 | + [Chip information curated by Jeff Fox](http://www.ultratechnology.com/chips.htm) 34 | 35 | ## Standards 36 | 37 | + [ANS Forth 1994 (table of contents)](https://www.taygeta.com/forth/dpans.html) 38 | + [ANS Forth 1994 (index of words)](https://www.taygeta.com/forth/dpansf.htm) 39 | + [Forth 2012 standard and Forth200x committee](https://forth-standard.org/) 40 | 41 | ## ANS Forth implementations 42 | 43 | + [SwiftForth](https://www.forth.com/swiftforth/) -- big commercial implementation from Forth, Inc. 44 | + [GForth](http://www.gnu.org/software/gforth/) -- big implementation using GCC to compile a fast direct or indirect threaded Forth 2012. 45 | + [Win32Forth](http://win32forth.sourceforge.net/) -- big implementation for Microsoft Windows 46 | + [pForth](http://www.softsynth.com/pforth/) -- Portable C Forth from 3DO/Lucent 47 | + [hForth](https://www.taygeta.com/hforth.html) -- minimal, portable 48 | + [Jones Forth](https://github.com/AlexandreAbreu/jonesforth) -- minimal, Linux x86 49 | + [lbForth](https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/lbForth) -- self-hosting, portable Forth 50 | + [SP-Forth](https://github.com/rufig/spf), Crossplatform forth with [huge shared code library from different developers](https://github.com/rufig/spf/tree/master/devel) included 51 | + [muforth](https://muforth.nimblemachines.com/), "Small, simple, fast, indirect-threaded Forth intended for use as a cross-compiler" 52 | + [CamelForth](http://camelforth.com) is an implementation for embedded microprocessors (8051, 8086, Z80, and 6809, with more to come). 53 | + [amForth](https://sourceforge.net/projects/amforth/) is a Forth 2012-ish interpreter running on AVR ATmega and TI MSP430 microcontrollers 54 | + [Mecrisp Forth](http://mecrisp.sourceforge.net/) is an implementation of a standalone native code Forth for MSP430 microcontrollers 55 | + [Mecrisp-Stellaris](http://mecrisp.sourceforge.net/) is a variant of Mecrisp which runs on various ARM Cortex M chips (and the Raspberry Pi Pico and BBC MicroBit). See also the comprehensive [Documentation](https://mecrisp-stellaris-folkdoc.sourceforge.io/) 56 | 57 | ## Non-standard Forth implementations 58 | 59 | + [ColorForth](https://colorforth.github.io/), Chuck Moore 60 | + [EtherForth](http://etherforth.org/), Chuck Moore and Daniel Kalny 61 | + [RetroForth](http://www.retroforth.org/) 62 | + [Rainbow Forth](https://github.com/flagxor/rainbowforth), Perhaps simpliest ColorForth that you may start [in your browser](http://rainbowforth.appspot.com/) (Link requies Google login). Tons of cool documentation too! 63 | + [J1 swapforth project](https://github.com/jamesbowman/swapforth/tree/master/j1a) Minimal Forth system to be ran directly on J1a 64 | 65 | ## Applications 66 | 67 | + [Forth in Space Applications](https://www.forth.com/resources/space-applications/) -- a list from Forth, Inc. 68 | + [Galileo spacecraft magnetometer patch (1993)](https://github.com/rongarret/gll-mag-patch) 69 | + [Open firmware](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware) 70 | 71 | ## Games 72 | 73 | + [Worms? (Atari 1983, with source code)](https://github.com/savetz/worms) 74 | + [Starflight](https://github.com/s-macke/starflight-reverse) 75 | 76 | ## Different Forth reading 77 | 78 | + [ColorForth website](https://colorforth.github.io/), Chuck Moore 79 | + [UltraTechnology website](http://www.ultratechnology.com/), Jeff Fox 80 | + [Forth Dimensions](http://www.forth.org/fd/contents.html) Scanned copies of the Forth Magazine from the past 81 | 82 | ## User groups 83 | 84 | + [Silicon Valley Forth Interest Group (SVFIG)](http://forth.org/svfig/), host of annual Forth day in November 85 | 86 | ## Forth companies 87 | 88 | + [Forth, Inc.](https://www.forth.com/) 89 | + [GreenArrays](http://www.greenarraychips.com/) 90 | + [Taygeta Scientific](https://www.taygeta.com/) 91 | 92 | ## Other concatenative languages 93 | 94 | + [Joy](http://www.latrobe.edu.au/humanities/research/research-projects/past-projects/joy-programming-language) -- purely-functional language 95 | + [Factor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_0QlhYlS8g) -- garbage-collected functional language 96 | + [OForth](http://www.oforth.com) -- garbage-collected object-oriented language 97 | + [**Concatenative language wiki**](https://concatenative.org/) 98 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /LICENSE: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | Creative Commons Legal Code 2 | 3 | CC0 1.0 Universal 4 | 5 | CREATIVE COMMONS CORPORATION IS NOT A LAW FIRM AND DOES NOT PROVIDE 6 | LEGAL SERVICES. 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