From 191e64e5e224df6f8d67b137ba416fe0b39d38bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: crc Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2021 19:38:36 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] updates to the README, add Bartels Jon Randy to Patreons FossilOrigin-Name: 767b9ea9d78e5d44884a1b5729dcdcbd7cabbfe9ec859e653c4f79c05256d997 --- README | 23 ++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 044d1f0..e694f99 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,5 +1,3 @@ -## 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. @@ -32,13 +30,14 @@ The `retro` executable embeds the image into the binary, making 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. @@ -53,15 +52,13 @@ header line like `#!/usr/bin/env retro`. 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 ~~~ @@ -71,13 +68,12 @@ Anything outside the fenced blocks will be ignored. ## 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. @@ -95,3 +91,4 @@ Thanks go out to my current and past patrons: - Krinkleneck - Rick Carlino - Scott McCallum +- Bartels Jon Randy