Using FORTH as target machine?

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Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:46:08 +0200

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From: "mailings@jmksf.com" <mailings@jmksf.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:46:08 +0200
Organization: Compilers Central
Keywords: question
Posted-Date: 24 Jul 2009 18:28:33 EDT

Hi there!


I've got some questions about things relating to the topics of compiler
backends and target languages dealing with the Forth programming language.


While crawling the web, I was unable to find out a compiler that uses
Forth as its target language. But in my opinion, compiling a
higher-level language into Forth code is a great deal between using a
standardized lower-level and widely spread programming language and its
platform-independency. There are even CPUs which are capable of
executing Forth.


So, does anyone know about a compiler-project or similar software that
uses Forth as its destination? And if not - would it be wrong to compile
code into sequences of Forth definitions and words? Why?


Maybe I'm just looking too "foolish Forthy" into this topic. At least,
it's a simple, stack-based virtual machine which is needed to execute a
  program in a particular (maybe self-defined) lower level language a
compiler compiles to.


Is my question only a different look on a well-known and widely used
philosophy of program execution, or is it quite legitimate?




Thanks for all replies in advance!




Regards,


Jan



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