Gforth
{{Short description|Free implementation of the Forth programming language}}
{{Infobox software
| name = Gforth
| logo = Gforth Logo.png
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| author = Bernd Paysan
Anton Ertl
| developer = GNU Project
| released = mid-{{Start date and age|1992}}{{Cite web |title=Origin - Gforth Manual |work=complang.tuwien.ac.at |date=2 November 2008 |access-date=26 September 2022 |url= http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/Docs-html/Origin.html }}
| latest release version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|P348|P548=Q2804309}}
| latest release date = {{Start date and age|{{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}|df=yes}}
| operating system = Unix-like, Windows, MS-DOS, OS/2
| programming language = C, Forth
| genre = Interpreter
| license = GNU GPLv3
| website = {{URL|gnu.org/s/gforth/}}
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{{Portal|Free and open-source software}}
Gforth is a free and portable implementation of the Forth programming language for Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows, and other operating systems. A primary goal of Gforth is to adhere to the ANS Forth standard. Gforth is free software as part of the GNU Project.{{cite web |url=http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/gforth |title= GNU Forth |date=14 June 2014 |editor=directory.fsf.org |publisher=Free Software Foundation}}
History
The Gforth project was started in mid-1992 by Bernd Paysan and Anton Ertl. Gforth descends from bigFORTH and fig-Forth{{Cite web |title=bigFORTH Forth System+MINOS GUI in Forth |work=bigforth.sourceforge.net |url= http://bigforth.sourceforge.net/}}{{Cite web |title=The Last Fig-Forth Ever |work=home.hccnet.nl |url= https://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst/figforth.html }} Gforth is fully ANS FORTH compliant.
References
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External links
- [http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/gforth Gforth - Free Software Directory]
- {{Official website|https://www.gnu.org/software/gforth/}}
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Category:Concatenative programming languages
Category:Forth programming language family
Category:Free software programmed in C
Category:Free and open source interpreters
Category:Forth implementations
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