Flashforth

It has been may years since I used forth on Z80's.

Today I downloaded flashforth for the PIC18 family. I assembled it for the PIC18F4550 from MPLAB. It ran with and without the debugger.

The system takes 8K of memory so it does not make sense to try it on a 18F1320 which only has 8K of memory. So much for using it with the Junebug.

It has been so long that I have forgotten all but the basics of the language. I feel like I am all dressed up with no place to go.

Forth made a lot of sense when we did not have C for the uC's. It is still a powerful language and would be a good choice if you wanted to do AI with self writting or self-modifying code. You can not do that in C,

I do not expect to be using it soon but it is one more tool in the chest. Maybe if I get into some fancy robotic AI work it will be useful.