Win32Forth is a public
domain, ANS compatible, Forth language application
development system. It was initially written by Andrew
McKewan, Tom Zimmer, Robert Smith and Jim Schneider
during 1994 and 1995, and released into the public domain
(with the exception of Jim Schneider's assembler which
was under the GPL). Win32Forth is a FAT (as in BIG)
system, adhering to the philosophy that if some tools are
good, many tools must be better. It includes an
interactive console and an integrated extensible source
level debugger. Editing of source text is facilitated by
the included WinEd hypertext file editor, which allows
easy exploration of the many mega-bytes of source code
that makes up Win32Forth.
About us
The Win32Forth
Project Group was formed in 2002, by John A. Peters,
on TopicA.com. It grew in to a loose affiliation of
programmers and users of Tom
Zimmer's Win32Forth system. Tom interests took him
elsewhere in 2001 and 2002 (mainly Java), and he no
longer took an active interest in his system. Tom
re-affirmed that his product was in the public domain;
this group intends furthering the work of maintaining and
developing a Forth product suitable for Windows and the
21st century based on his work.
Win32Forth