It seems like arpilisp is inspired by jonesforth[0]. Although not directly stated, the style is similar and the acknowledgements mentions Richard Jones. Anyone interested in implementing simple programming languages might also want to take a look at jonesforth.
[0]: https://github.com/nornagon/jonesforth
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jonesforth
Mirror of JONESFORTH
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Mirror of JONESFORTH
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Where it is used
- jonesforth_riscv32 (Hans Baier) — Hans Baier's jonesforth_riscv32 repo copies and bases its RISC-V port on the x86 jonesforth source from the nornagon mirror; the repository explicitly states it used that mirror as the x86 source and that the RISC-V code was rewritten from that material. Source
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Cool. Here are some other resources that I've encountered along the way of learning Forth: - JonesForth: https://github.com/nornagon/jonesforth/blob/master/jonesfort... This is…
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 1 | 6 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 10 | 1 | 9 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 12 | 2 | 10 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 1 | 7 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 2 | 0 |
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Read the project’s introduction
This is a mirror of Richard WM Jones's excellent literate x86 assembly
implementation of Forth, more on which here:
http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/08/07/jonesforth-git-repository/
Read the full README on GitHub