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RETRO FORTH
Forth Programming Language
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All Versions of RETRO FORTH
2021.1
February 7, 2021
Updated to the latest image and documentation. This also brings some small bug fixes and corrections need removes deprecated functions from the language.
More2020.1
February 10, 2020
Updated to the latest RETRO system and documentation. I've also made some more updates to the UI, adding a light mode and fixed numerous bugs.
More2019.8
August 11, 2019
It's been a long time coming, but a new update is here.
This update brings a new interface that improves usability on iPhone and overall readability. It also brings in a new settings screen, allowing selection of the icon to better fit your preferences.
Beyond this, nearly every aspect of the underlying system has been updated. Of note, the runtime is now completely rewritten and is faster and more stable than before. Optimizations have been made to the gopher support. The system is also now running the latest image which adds numerous improvements to the language, removes deprecated functions, and has a number of performance enhancements.
The documentation is improved as well. The manual is now nicely formatted, and is significantly expanded, with more examples and deeper explanations of the functions and their usage. The glossary browser is also updated with the latest words.
More2018.8
August 1, 2018
This release brings many changes and improvements to the language and editor.
Interface:
- darker colors, better text contrast
- file manager improvements:
- files now sorted alphabetically
- support for renaming files
- now uses only ~~~ for code blocks
Core Language Improvements
- renamed functions for better consistency with the namespaces
- puts => s:put
- putc => c:put
- putn => n:put
- putf => f:put
- words => d:words
- s:with-format => s:format
- removed tors as it was unused
- new words:
- d:words-with
- set:make
- { and }
Other Improvements
- file:slurp now matches the documentation
- removed ui:get-input (proved too buggy)
- new floating point words
- f:NAN
- f:INF
- f:-INF
- f:nan?
- f:inf?
- f:-inf?
- f:sqrt
- f:round
- f:square
- new file words:
- file:open[for-reading]
- file:open[for-append]
- file:open[for-writing]
More2018.4.23
April 23, 2018
A minor update to followup on 2018.4:
- Replace the `editor` namespace with `config`
- Add new options to control font, sizing in the editor, output, and toolbars separately
See the "User Interface" document for some notes & examples on using these.
This also contains an updated Glossary, fixing a couple of small typos and adding the new words.
I've also removed the buggy "highlight code blocks" option as it was causing some instability.
Previously:
It's been a while... so here's what's new:
- rewrote `s:eq?`, leading to significant performance improvements
- added `times[with-index]` and `I`, `J`, `K` for loop indexes
- faster code generation
- reduced size of the standard library by about 1/2KiB by some clever reordering of code
- updated the documentation
- added some words in the new `editor` namespace to allow changing fonts, sizing. See the "User Interface" documentation for more details and some examples.
- updated the examples
- some general stability improvements thanks to expanded error checks
More2018.4
April 19, 2018
It's been a while... so here's what's new:
- rewrote `s:eq?`, leading to significant performance improvements
- added `times<with-index>` and `I`, `J`, `K` for loop indexes
- faster code generation
- reduced size of the standard library by about 1/2KiB by some clever reordering of code
- updated the documentation
- added some words in the new `editor` namespace to allow changing fonts, sizing. See the "User Interface" documentation for more details and some examples.
- updated the examples
- some general stability improvements thanks to expanded error checks
More2018.1
January 23, 2018
I work to continue improving RETRO for you.
This release brings in the latest image (RETRO-2018.1), adds support for the '\r' escape sequence in strings (when using `s:with-format`), and adds `f:ceiling` to the floating point vocabulary. The Glossary has been updated and now includes more examples.
More significant is that RETRO now makes better use of hardware keyboards (if available), with a variety of keyboard shortcuts to make interaction faster and easier.
More2017.12.18
December 17, 2017
This is a small maintenance release before the holidays. It has fixes a bug that could cause RETRO to crash in some rare instances, has a bunch of internal cleanups in the editor, and removes some assets that are no longer needed to reduce the application size a little.
More2017.12
December 4, 2017
This release brings a number of improvements. The most immediate is a new dictionary browser ("Glossary") which makes it easy to find the basic documentation for each function in the core language. Other changes include expansions to the floating point and string vocabularies, bug fixes, and internal optimizations to save a little space while improving performance.
More2017.11
October 31, 2017
Updated to the latest RETRO image with many internal improvements and a few new functions to allow easier debugging.
New words:
- `FREE`
- `s:const`
- `d:lookup-xt`
Improvements:
- Quotations are now smaller and faster
- Jumps are now smaller and faster
- Use of `@` and `!` prefixes is smaller and faster
- Reorganized memory layout to reduce size a little
Bug fixes:
- Changing string size limits now works correctly
- Resolved issue with `n:MIN`
- `set:for-each` now restores the active buffer on completion
Other:
- Fixed some mistakes in the Glossary
MorePrice History of RETRO FORTH
Description of RETRO FORTH
RETRO FORTH is a concatenative programming language with roots in Forth. Designed to be compact, learnable, and easy to adapt to specific needs, it has been developed and refined through continual use by a small community over more than a decade.
Forth is a stack based programming language created in the late 1960's by Chuck Moore. Over the intervening decades it has evolved through use, with many dialects along the way.
The Retro dialect was created in the late 1990's, and has been continually developed and supported for over 15 years. It is a structured, imperative stack-based language with modern facilities including quotations and reflection.
It features:
- latest version of the RETRO language
- a code editor using Markdown subset
- literate programming style
- code is extracted from fenced blocks in Markdown source allowing easy mixing of code and commentary
- allows use of unicode & emoji in source & commentary
- interactive listener interface for quick interactions
- simple console output and text input
- editor provides quick access to numbers and symbols
- support for fetching textual data from Gopher servers
- file manager
- documentation browser
It also includes documentation and several optional examples.
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RETRO FORTH: FAQ
Yes, RETRO FORTH works on iPad devices.
RETRO FORTH was launched by Charles Childers.
The minimum supported iOS version for the RETRO FORTH app is iOS 12.4.
The average rating for the RETRO FORTH app is 4.4.
The Primary Genre Of The Retro Forth App Is Developer Tools.
The latest RETRO FORTH version released is 2021.1.
The latest RETRO FORTH update was rolled out on July 1, 2024.
The RETRO FORTH app launched on February 6, 2023.
The RETRO FORTH app contains no objectionable material and is suitable for children aged Charles Childers.
You can use the RETRO FORTH app in English.
Unfortunately, RETRO FORTH is not on Apple Arcade.
Unfortunately, in-app purchases are not part of RETRO FORTH.
No, RETRO FORTH does not support compatibility with Apple Vision Pro.
