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- Path: sparky!uunet!starnine!mikeh
- From: mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas)
- Subject: Re: Real dumb question.
- Message-ID: <BzA61o.KJC@starnine.com>
- Sender: mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas)
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 03:08:11 GMT
- References: <1992Nov30.221303.26291@pellns.alleg.edu> <1992Dec1.143910.23268@exu.ericsson.se>
- Organization: StarNine Technologies, Inc.
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- In article <1992Dec1.143910.23268@exu.ericsson.se> exuhag@exu.ericsson.se writes:
- >Michael Marshall writes:
- >>
- >>Is there a language that exists called FIFTH?
- >>I think I once read a parody on programming languages which mentioned a
- >>FIFTh, but this was a pun on FORTH.
- >>Is there a REAL FIFTH????
- >
- >It's a variant of Forth with a 32-bit stack (no need for a double
- >wordset), modules, and true compilation. The version in the SIMTEL
- >msdos.forth directory is very old so I assumed that it was a
- >discontinued product (I remember seeing magazine ads for it five or
- >six years ago). But I have talked to one of the developers and
- >Fifth is apparently alive and well on the IBM PC and Amiga. The
-
- I'm not aware of a Fifth on the Amiga, and in fact, know of no other
- commercially available versions other than JForth (the only other
- commercial one WAS Multi-Forth by Creative Solutions, but they
- didn't hold out, went off the market a couple years ago.
-
- If anyone DOES know of another commercially available Forth,
- PLEASE let me know. (really available, not vaporware).
- I'd really like to see what someone is going to compete with JForth with.
-
- BTW, JForth is a 32-bit subroutine-threaded Forth with user-settable
- word length for what gets compiled inline and what gets called.
-
- And even though it's 32-bit, it includes a double-word set...
- that's 64 bits!!!
-
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