Gforth

Short description: Free implementation of the Forth programming language

Gforth

Original author(s)| Bernd Paysan
Anton Ertl
Developer(s)| GNU Project
Initial release| mid-1992; 34 years ago (1992)[1]
Stable release|

0.7.3 / June 14, 2014; 11 years ago (2014-06-14)

Preview release|

0.7.9_20200213 / February 13, 2020; 6 years ago (2020-02-13)

Written in| C, Forth
Operating system| Unix-like, Windows, MS-DOS, OS/2
Type| Interpreter
License| GNU GPLv3
Website| gnu.org/s/gforth/

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.[2]

## History

The Gforth project was started in mid-1992 by Bernd Paysan and Anton Ertl. Gforth descends from bigFORTH and fig-Forth[1][3][4] Gforth is fully ANS FORTH compliant.[2]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Origin - Gforth Manual". complang.tuwien.ac.at. 2 November 2008. http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/Docs-html/Origin.html.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 directory.fsf.org, ed (14 June 2014). "GNU Forth". Free Software Foundation. http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/gforth.
3. ↑ "bigFORTH Forth System+MINOS GUI in Forth". bigforth.sourceforge.net. http://bigforth.sourceforge.net/.
4. ↑ "The Last Fig-Forth Ever". home.hccnet.nl. https://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst/figforth.html.

## External links

* Gforth - Free Software Directory

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