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## Retro: A Modern, Pragmatic Forth
RETRO is a modern, pragmatic Forth drawing influences from many
sources. It's clean, elegant, tiny, and easy to grasp and adapt
to various uses.
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it trivial to copy and deploy.
This interface layer also extends the language with many new
words and vocabularies, adds scripting, file i/o, gopher, and
floating point math support.
words and vocabularies, adds scripting, file i/o, floating point,
and more.
The `retro` executable can handle a variety of command line
arguments:
arguments which are covered in the manpage, but the most common
ones are:
retro -i
retro
Starts the *listener*, a basic REPL for interactive use.
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This will run the code in the specified file, then start the
listener.
retro -h
Displays a summary of the command line arguments.
## Literate Sources
Source files for use with `retro` are written with code in
fenced blocks:
commentary here
~~~
code here
~~~
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## Documentation
The primary documentation is in RETRO-Book.md (and the formatted
RETRO-Book.html.) Additional notes can be found in the `doc`
directory.
epub.) Additional notes can be found in the `doc` directory.
## Alternative Implementations
In addition to the C and Python implementations, this source
tree includes additional implementations in C#, JavaScript,
tree includes additional implementations in C#, Nim, JavaScript,
and Pascal. These are not as well tested or as feature complete
as the main implementations, but are provided for your use if
the standard implementations will not suffice.
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- Krinkleneck
- Rick Carlino
- Scott McCallum
- Bartels Jon Randy