X-Git-Url: https://thelambdalab.xyz/gitweb/index.cgi?p=forth.jl.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.md;h=a6e0645b2a34c19dcd6b0b5fa86dc14107186679;hp=54dd58b663a1dc6d30a36575df12bd1ea45b7126;hb=43cd7e6d8968a85ee9250033080268caafef5a47;hpb=3f94f6047a8788a3ba10ec6c267eff0e08400d7f diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 54dd58b..a6e0645 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ that which it has already fulfilled: forcing me to think quite carefully about how forth works. This package owes a massive debt to the existence of the literate programming -project [JonesForth] (https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/08/07/jonesforth-git-repository/), +project [JonesForth](https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/08/07/jonesforth-git-repository/), which was an amazing read. To a large degree my package is simply a port of that project from x86 assembly + forth to julia + forth, although the mapping is in a few places non-trivial due to the fact that julia is a high level @@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ install it, you will therefore need to use the following command: julia> Pkg.clone("https://github.com/tgvaughan/forth.jl") +Currently, forth.jl **requires** Julia 0.6. (Incompatabilities exist between +0.6 and previous versions of julia, particularly the handling of [world age](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/17057).) + ## Usage To start the interpreter/compiler running, simply enter the following at