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Show HN: R3forth, a ColorForth-inspired language with a tiny VM

57 pointsby phreda4yesterday at 10:10 PM9 commentsview on HN

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watersbtoday at 4:49 AM

Forth invented as a monitor and control system for one of the radio telescopes at NRAO in West Virginia...

So I have a tribal affinity for Color Forth, by original creator of Forth.

alexisreadyesterday at 11:51 PM

Very impressive demos! I did a quick look through the docs- it’s single threaded (in the cpu sense) and not multi process yes?

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thristiantoday at 12:23 AM

In the first code example in the readme ("First program"), there's `sdlcls`, `SDLinit`, and `SDLShow`. Is there some significance to the capitalisation?

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ripetoday at 12:27 AM

Very nice graphics using SDL2!

So many features-- sprite sheets, etc. Well done!

13415yesterday at 11:02 PM

Very interesting, great work! This reminded me of something. I just checked and to my amazement Mike Hore's Powermops is still around and even has an ARM version.[1]

[1] https://www.powermops.org

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