DMD 1.005 release

[Andreas Kochenburger]

Kevin Bealer wrote:
> Charles D Hixson wrote:
> But the central feature of FORTH is that the compiler and runtime can be 
> made mind-bogglingly small.  I think the run time speed for a naive 
> interpretation is probably somewhere between C and interpreted bytecode.
> 
>  From this page about tiny4th: http://www.seanet.com/~karllunt/tiny4th
> 
> "The run-time engine takes up less than 1K of code space and the p-codes 
> are so dense that you can get a lot of robot functionality in just 2K."

Before someone thinks, Forth is only a play-thing, see http://www.forth.com/

There are also excellent freeware versions around, f.ex.
http://win32forth.sourceforge.net/

There is even ans ANS / ISO standard for the language.

Andreas