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