#forsh is a #shell built on top of #gforth. It allows one to easily operate a #unix -like operating system without leaving gforth's #forth environment and can serve as a fully featured replacement to the bourne shell and derivatives such as #bash

https://bitbucket.org/cowile/forsh

@h this is beautiful and terrifying and I don't know whether to call the Nobel Committee or the UN Security Council

@natecull I don't know whether to call the BAFTAs selection commitee or The International Criminal Court at The Hague.

@h all the safety of a bash root shell combined with all the user-friendliness of Forth

@natecull Now think of it, if you have an ANS Forth compliant environment on a little machine (perhaps as firmware on an EPROM) you may be able to run a unix shell like forsh on that little machine.

Might even be @vertigo 's Kestrel one of these days.

@h @natecull forsh depends on Unix itself, so it won't be a good fit for a smaller machine. Maybe a Kestrel-3 running Linux or Plan-9. ;)

@vertigo @h Have y'all come across https://github.com/kragen/stoneknifeforth at all? That's the Forth I'm most obsessed with, lately..

/cc @natecull

@akkartik @vertigo @natecull

First time I see it. I've been kind of wishing that I can come up with a reasonable model for a 64-bit only Forth. What StoneKnife is kind of the exact opposite, making everything 32-bit it seems?