Forth News
Volume Number: 7
Issue Number: 12
Column Tag: Jörg's Folder
By Jörg Langowski, MacTutor Editorial Board
Note: Source code files accompanying article are located on MacTech CD-ROM orsource code disks.
Now that we haven’t had much news about Mach2 Forth from Palo Alto Shipping
for a long time, MacForth Plus from Creative Solutions seems to be the only
commercially available Forth for the Macintosh. Makers of other Forths, please correct
me if I’m wrong.
You haven’t heard much about MacForth Plus in my column, even when it was
still a Forth column. The reasons were different: the subroutine-threaded native code
implementation of Mach2 which was faster than the token-threading used by MacForth,
the fact that Mac Toolbox calls in Mach2 resembled much more those of other
languages, the Mach2 assembler’s syntax which was close to the standard Motorola
syntax, the possibility of writing stand-alone code resources in Mach2. MacForth,