From 717723c8ac4f859a15af053b1e7f3057887c3c06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Vaughan Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 23:37:53 +1200 Subject: [PATCH] Made readme sound less silly. --- README.md | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index df5db6d..e19732d 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -7,14 +7,14 @@ 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/), -which I believe I've had more fun reading than any other piece of code. 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 language. A huge proportion (say 80%) -of the library code in src/lib.4th is directly copied from JonesForth. (The -fact that it was possible to reuse this code was satisfying in its own right!) -I've added some additional core definitions and modified some of the others to -be a little bit closer to the behaviour of ANS forth (or at least FORTH 83). +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 +language. A huge proportion (say 80%) of the library code in src/lib.4th is +directly copied from JonesForth. (The fact that it was possible to reuse this +code was satisfying in its own right!) I've added some additional core +definitions and modified some of the others to be a little bit closer to the +behaviour of ANS forth (or at least FORTH 83). There's quite a lot to say about the implementation, especially due to its high-level grounding, but that will have to wait for another time. -- 2.20.1