James Edward Gray II wrote:
On Aug 25, 2007, at 2:06 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
It does have a GCC dependency,
which might be an issue on Macs or Solaris. I don't have either so I
can't answer that -- it runs very well on Linux and Windows.The primary compiler for Macs is gcc.
James Edward Gray II
Thanks! I thought they had their own compiler.
James Edward Gray II wrote:
On Aug 25, 2007, at 2:06 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
It does have a GCC dependency,
which might be an issue on Macs or Solaris. I don't have either so I
can't answer that -- it runs very well on Linux and Windows.The primary compiler for Macs is gcc.
James Edward Gray II
While I can't say for *what* versions, GCC runs on pretty dang near every
thing as far as I know. If I recall correctly GCC was even the default system
compiler on 4.4BSD, replacing PCC (the Portable C Compiler).
TerryP.
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I hope you do. I'm Forth ignorant, so you could bring me to the light. 
I'll sure run it if you put something together.
James Edward Gray II
On Aug 25, 2007, at 9:13 PM, Bill Kelly wrote:
I've thought on occasion it might be neat to submit a ruby quiz
sometime, where the goal is to write, in ruby, the core of a Forth interpreter/compiler, such that the rest of the language
(provided with the quiz) can bootstrap itself.
James Edward Gray II wrote:
On Aug 25, 2007, at 9:13 PM, Bill Kelly wrote:
I've thought on occasion it might be neat to submit a ruby quiz
sometime, where the goal is to write, in ruby, the core of a Forth
interpreter/compiler, such that the rest of the language
(provided with the quiz) can bootstrap itself.I hope you do. I'm Forth ignorant, so you could bring me to the light.
I'll sure run it if you put something together.
James Edward Gray II
Actually, what would be even more interesting would be a Ruby
interpreter written in Forth or Scheme, rather than in C or Java. 
Seriously, though, a simple Forth can be built with indirect threaded
code and all that needs to be "bootstrapped" is the so-called "inner
interpreter". Traditionally, that's done in assembler for speed, but I
suppose a Ruby inner interpreter could be built.