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Forth is one of the last languages on my list. Whenever I read something like this article, I want to learn it. The advice at the end of the article seems interesting. Does anyone have any resources that might help with this?

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A Forth shibboleth is that you have to implement your own in order to understand it. Try reading the assembly, then forth source, for jonesforth: https://github.com/AlexandreAbreu/jonesforth

This is how I learned.

Oh wow, thanks. That is pretty much exactly what I was looking for.

Original repository and introductory article:

http://git.annexia.org/?p=jonesforth.git;a=shortlog

https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/08/07/jonesforth-git-reposit...

For anyone stumbling over this and having trouble to build it, I had to figure out two things: 1. When building on x86_64 Debian, I had to install linux-libc-dev:i386 to get /usr/include/i386-linux-gnu/asm/unistd.h. I also had to adapt the include path to have it actually found. 2. If you see a segfault when running the executable, you likely need to remove -Wl,-Ttext,0 from the build command. At least on my system, it fixes the segfaults and now jonesforth runs as expected.

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