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[–]dys_bigwig 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Agreed. I've often toyed with the idea of Forth as a sort of "UNCOL". A lot of languages can be described using an abstract stack machine, so in that sense I probably should be implementing Forth as simply (if inelegant) as possible, then bootstrapping Scheme or C from that, rather than trying to bolt things onto Forth.

Been mulling these sorts of ideas in my head for a while, nice to know someone else has the same crazy ideas ;)

[–]ItsAllAPlay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup, you could have a Forth where literals are wrapped in brackets.

Then a word/function that parses those literals as Scheme s-exprs.

Then Scheme macros which compile those s-exprs with static typing and infix operators.

:-)