Re: [Haskell-cafe] G machine in FORTH

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