Thursday, 26 December 2024

RP 2040 a prime candidate for FORTH

 It seems to me that the Raspberry Pi RP 2040 is a proper candidate for the FORTH programming language.   I am not alone as somebody has already done some versions of the language.

https://wellys.com/posts/rp2040_forth/

https://github.com/kristianwiklund/rp2040-forth

https://hackaday.io/page/11525-multicore-forth-execution-with-multitasking-on-the-rp2040  

(ZeptoForth)

https://wiki.forth-ev.de/doku.php/en:pfw:assemblers_rp2040-assembler

I'll look into these. Then I'll see if I can put an MQTT publisher on one. 

The version of FORTH that I used back in '79-80.

https://www.forth.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/microFORTH_on_RCA_COSMAC_05_text.pdf

https://www.forth.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/microFORTH_on_RCA_COSMAC_05_source.pdf