4 A hobby scheme interpreter for FORTH 83. Specifically it is targeted at
5 [forth.jl](http://github.com/tgvaughan/forth.jl) which is an implementation of
6 FORTH on top of [Julia](http://www.julialang.org), hence the name. It began
7 life as a fairly direct port of Peter Micheaux's [Bootstrap
8 Scheme](https://github.com/petermichaux/bootstrap-scheme) (as described in
9 [this wonderful series of blog
10 posts](http://peter.michaux.ca/articles/scheme-from-scratch-introduction)) from
11 C to forth. In addition, this interpreter has a mark-sweep garbage collector.
12 In future, I plan to also implement a macro system, file io, and a more
13 complete numerical tower to bring it closer to
14 [R5RS](http://www.schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/).
16 The goal is for the interpreter to be complete enough to be used to complete
17 the majority of the exercises found in [SICP](http://sarabander.github.io/sicp/).
19 This software is free (as in freedom) and is distributed under the terms
20 of version 3 of the GNU General Public License. A copy of this license
21 is included in this repository in the file COPYING.