pForth

pForth
Original author	Phil Burk
Developer	Phil Burk
Stable release	2.0.1  / 9 January 2023 (9 January 2023)
Written in	C
Operating system	Linux, Mac OS, Windows, WebTV, and embedded systems with no operating system
Size	204 KB
Available in	English, French, Chinese
Type	Programming language
License	BSD Zero Clause License
Website	www.softsynth.com/pforth/
Repository	github.com/philburk/pforth

pForth (Portable Forth) is a portable implementation of the Forth programming language written in ANSI C. It differs from the other distributions of Forth in that it strives for portability over performance. pForth is released under the BSD Zero Clause License.

History

PForth started out as HForth, which was used in connection with the Hierarchical Music Specification Language, a music experimentation language developed by Phil Burk, Larry Polansky and David Rosenboom. Phil Burk ported the HForth kernel to C when he moved to the 3DO company. The newly ported Forth at 3DO had to run on many different systems including SUN, SGI, Macintosh, IBM PC compatibles, Amiga, and the 3DO ARM based Opera system.

License

Originally pForth was released to the public domain with a custom release and disclaimer of no warranty but in 2020, it was relicensed under the zero-clause BSD license, which is a public-domain-equivalent license.

External links

• Official Homepage
• pForth on GitHub
• pForth for Max OS X
• pForth for Debian
• pForth for MVS : MVS on the IBM System/370 is an EBCDIC platform.