[COFF] [TUHS] Re: forth on early unix

[Bakul Shah via COFF]

> On Sep 22, 2025, at 9:58 PM, Lars Brinkhoff via COFF <coff at tuhs.org> wrote:
> 
> Adam Thornton wrote:
>> I found a pretty decent one-file FORTH in K&R C and tried to port it
>> to v7.  Too many symbols in that one file.  So then I tried breaking
>> each FORTH word out into its own file and linking a bunch of tiny
>> little .o files, and that was too many files for the linker.
> 
> My personal toy Forth runs on V7, but I only tested it with the apout
> emulator. https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/lbForth/tree/master/targets/pdp11

I wonder if there is a meta-circular evaluator for forth (i.e. forth in forth)
like Scheme in Scheme - a scheme program that evaluates any scheme program given
to it as input.

https://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/summerschool/summer25/_lectures/Amin-notes-1.pdf