PLForth Home Page

This page was http://members.aol.com/plforth/ sometime after Friday, May 10, 2002 began.

Welcome to the Home Page of PLForth.

Why Forth? Well, I like the Forth programming language because I like the idea of having an interpreter of the C programming language that I can write once and run anywhere.

Why PL? By PLForth I mean the Forth work of Pat LaVarre mailto:p.lavarre@ieee.org & friends.

See Here:

PLForth for the Mac (source code in plain .txt even if you have no Mac)
moforth/index.html

Pong in Forth for the Mac (includes .jpg Pong screenshot and .jpg Pong icon)
ofpong/index.html

See Elsewhere:

1983 Forth83
http://forth.sourceforge.net/std/fst83/

1994 Ans Forth, copies of the final draft:
http://www.forth.org/dpans/dpansf.htm
http://www.taygeta.com/forth/dpansf.htm - same?

Forth Interest Group:
http://www.forth.org/literature.html

Forth kernel design notes, published in The Computer Journal:
http://www.zetetics.com/bj/papers/

GForth manual:
http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/html/gforth.html

Google searches that might bring you back here later:
http://www.google.com/search?q=plforth

Open Firmware boot Forth
http://bananajr6000.apple.com/1275/home.html - the home page of the "working group"
http://playground.sun.com/1275/home.html - same?
http://members.aol.com/plforth/ofpong/index.html
http://members.aol.com/plforth/moforth/index.html

Usenet news:*forth* - most recent involving Pat LaVarre:
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=Pat%20LaVarre&as_ugroup=*forth*&num=100&as_scoring=d

Usenet news:comp.lang.forth:
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.lang.forth - the talk
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/computer-lang/forth-faq/ - the FAQ
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/faq/toc.html - same?
http://forth.sourceforge.net/ - the "repository"

Words (i.e. subroutines) found painfully missing in 1994 Ans Forth:
http://forth.sourceforge.net/word/index.html - not quite standard
http://forth.sourceforge.net/wordset/index.html - beyond Ans Forth
http://home.earthlink.net/~neilbawd/toolbelt.html - from Wil Baden
http://www.quartus.net/products/forth/manual/specific.htm - from Quartus for the Palm

Books:

Amazon.com indices of books:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-keywords=FORTH%20computer%20language
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-keywords=FORTH%20programming%20language

1992 Forth:The New Model, by Jack J. Woehr
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1558512772
http://www.well.com/user/jax/rcfb/forth.html

Finally:

At mailto:p.lavarre@ieee.org I await your comments and questions.