X-Git-Url: https://thelambdalab.xyz/gitweb/index.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.md;h=a435f53a0732055af8db6685a95e16b4ff334a28;hb=749dd8439730c404058c7a672252ab19967268ac;hp=b8c0caeafc5e04997667e7c494fbb3a483ce3042;hpb=7b36afd3962b8ac1389496d86da661664e03e20b;p=scheme.forth.jl.git diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index b8c0cae..a435f53 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,16 +1,18 @@ scheme.forth.jl --------------- -A hobby scheme interpreter for FORTH 83. Specifically it is targeted at +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 +C to forth, but also includes variadic compound function support, mark-sweep +garbage collection, quasiquotation, and a very basic (non-hygenic) macro +system. + +In future, I plan to also implement a more complete numerical tower to bring it closer to [R5RS](http://www.schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/). The goal is for the interpreter to be complete enough to be used to complete