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Oh, nice, Jones forth! I second the recommendation to read through it. I ported this to ARM assembly years ago, and it was a lot of fun. No idea where that program is now, unfortunately.

Now that I'm using Apple Silicon day to day, maybe it's time I try rewriting it for ARM64.

It gets hard when you discover that apple has mostly disallowed self modifying code on their arm architecture. You can, with lots of hoops, but a straightforward assembler in forth becomes all but impossible.

Also just learn assembly. The basics take a half hour to grasp if you have any exposure to programming :)

And make it a fun ASM. Like 6502 [0].

[0] https://skilldrick.github.io/easy6502/

My favorite learning assembly. It all mostly applies to every other Von Neumann machine too.

There are at least 2 ports to C that I'm aware of. Here's the older one: http://www.dst-corp.com/james/JonesForthInC-V148.html