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On 19-Apr-14 12:59, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2014-04-18, Shark8 <OneWingedShark@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 17-Apr-14 16:35, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> Are there FORTH compilers for every platform a C compiler runs on ?
>>
>> Probably.
>> And even if there's not, FORTH is apparently really, /really/ easy to
>> bootstrap.
>>
>
> [Enormous snip. :-)]
>
> I've saved this posting and added it to my list to things to read at
> some time in the future.
>
> However, you should be aware that Forth is completely alien to me;
> it's one language I've never even written a Hello World in. :-)
>
> Simon.

Yeah, my experience falls into a little bit of tinkering, though not 
much more than Hello World, and writing a Forth interpreter.

If you're interested, this magnet-link shows a really interesting "over 
the shoulder" view of Forth coding to a text-processing facility:

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