Programming Forth programming language mina 4.0.6 descriptions mina ciforth -- ISO Forth Language & Environment DESCRIPTION Forth is a tried & proven language for evolutionary { check as you go } programming ideal for rapid prototyping & experhyments with hardware. mina is the 16-bit MS-DOS version of ciforth an interpreter environment scripter & compiler for Forth. It supplies the CORE wordset of the ISO Forth standard plus some essentials i. a. file access & exceptions. Its power is multiplied by an extensive source library that adds i. a. a decompiler and an integrated 86 assembler. OPTIONS mina without options starts an interactive system. Options are implemented by a simple mechanism through the source library & hence are configurable. The most important ones are /H Print help i. e. the option summary version etc. Then exit. /E Load the electives i. e. tools for interactive development. Then start the interpreter. /C FILE. FRT Compile FILE. FRT to the binary FILE. EXE Then exit. /A /R Start the interpreter with the word REQUIRE available. DOCUMENTATION mina comes with html ps & pdf documentation. Version 4. 0. 6 has about 9500 pdf-pages per Mbyte of executable code. It documents all language features implemented and has a tutorial. mina. html contains only the reference documentation for easy click through. SOURCE The source for the compiler & the library are part of the package. . DIAGNOSTICS Uncaught exceptions will show the error number. Positive error numbers are ciforth-specific & explained in the documentation. Negative error numbers are OS-specific. A mnemonic message is fetched from the library file & displayed if possible. The combination MS-DOS plus Forth is crash-happy though. AUTHOR Copyright 2000-2004 by Albert van der Horst http://home. hccnet. nl/a. w. m. van. der. horst/ciforth. html ciforth is made available under the GNU Public License: quality but NO warranty.