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Goals of Gforth

The goal of the Gforth Project is to develop a standard model for ANS Forth. This can be split into several subgoals:

To achieve these goals Gforth should be

Have we achieved these goals? Gforth conforms to the ANS Forth standard. It may be considered a model, but we have not yet documented which parts of the model are stable and which parts we are likely to change. It certainly has not yet become a de facto standard, but it appears to be quite popular. It has some similarities to and some differences from previous models. It has some powerful features, but not yet everything that we envisioned. We certainly have achieved our execution speed goals (see Performance)1. It is free and available on many machines.


Footnotes

  1. However, in 1998 the bar was raised when the major commercial Forth vendors switched to native code compilers.