-A hobby scheme implementation for FORTH 83. Specifically it is targeted at
-[forth.jl](http://github.com/tgvaughan/forth.jl) which is an implementation
-of FORTH on top of [Julia](http://www.julialang.org), hence the name.
+A hobby scheme interpreter for FORTH 83. Specifically it is targeted at
+[forth.jl](http://github.com/tgvaughan/forth.jl) which is an implementation of
+FORTH on top of [Julia](http://www.julialang.org), hence the name. It began
+life as a fairly direct port of Peter Micheaux's [Bootstrap
+Scheme](https://github.com/petermichaux/bootstrap-scheme) (as described in
+[this wonderful series of blog
+posts](http://peter.michaux.ca/articles/scheme-from-scratch-introduction)) from
+C to forth. In addition, this interpreter has a mark-sweep garbage collector.
+In future, I plan to also implement a macro system, file io, and a more
+complete numerical tower to bring it closer to
+[R5RS](http://www.schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/).