
1 Jun
2005
1 Jun
'05
5:25 p.m.
Hi - 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. 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. let me know what you think, -andrew