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About Forth
Forth is an incredibly interesting and powerful programming language. It's
said that Forth gives a 10-times speed increase in development time over languages
such as C.
For a thorough overview of the Forth programming language and its history and
origins, I recommend reading The
Evolution of Forth.
Here are a few of Quartus Forth's advantages:
- Quartus is a full development environment: pre-processor, interpreter,
optimizing compiler, debugger, and linker all in one 19K kernel
plus associated resources
- Compile Forth directly on-board the PalmPilot connected organizer;
interactively test and debug your applications on the train, in meetings,
anywhere!
- Compliant with ISO/ANSI Standard Forth
- Generates fast, compact, native-code applications
- Quick compilation times (approximately 1500 bytes of source/second)
- Elegant, expressive syntax
- Fully supports structured programming - Forth has no 'goto' instruction!
- Implicit parameter-passing via the Forth data stack
- Optimal approach to function calls and parameter passing encourages modularity
and code re-use
- Seamless integration with the underlying
operating system
- Integrated inline 68000 assembler
- Extracts application code to small-footprint stand-alone Palm-format (PRC)
executables (no run-time required) (Registered version
only)
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