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-scheme.forth.jl
----------------
-
-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, 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
-the majority of the exercises found in [SICP](http://sarabander.github.io/sicp/).
-
-Running the interpreter
-=======================
-
-To run this Scheme interpreter, first open Julia from the src directory contained
-in this repository. If you've not done so already, install forth.jl using the
-following command:
-
- julia> Pkg.clone("https://github.com/tgvaughan/forth.jl")
-
-Then, import and run the Forth system:
-
- julia> import forth
- julia> forth.run()
- Welcome to forth.jl!
-
-Once Forth is running, execute the Scheme source and fire up the
-REPL using the following commands:
-
- include scheme.4th ok
- scheme repl
- Welcome to scheme.forth.jl!
- Use Ctrl-D to exit.
-
- >
-
-At this point you can start entering Scheme commands. For example,
-
- > (define (factorial n)
- (if (= n 0)
- 1
- (* n (factorial (- n 1)))))
- ; ok
- > (factorial 5)
- ; 120
-
-License
-=======
-
-This software is free (as in freedom) and is distributed under the terms
-of version 3 of the GNU General Public License. A copy of this license
-is included in this repository in the file COPYING.