REBOL Core on the Web

[Guest]

I was reading about Forth in the Wikipedia and came across this.

Try it out yourself
There's a Forth implementation in JavaScript online, which you can use to try out Forth. The interactive terminal emulation works best with browsers like Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape. Tutorial material is provided there as well:

http://forthfreak.net/jsforth.html

As this interpreter has been written in JavaScript, you browser needs to support JavaScript to run it, of course. Text mode browser elinks does not work, as support for forms (which are used for terminal emulation) is not yet sufficient.

Would something like this be possible to do with Core replacing Forth?
 

 

[CarlRead]

I couldn't get to the Forth implimentation - it appears to be down at the moment.

And I wouldn't like to attempt to write REBOL in JavaScript anyway, (not that I could, in any language), but providing a CLI that uses REBOL on a server would certainly be possible - though you'd have to think very carefully about security.

A better approach would be to use the REBOL plugin, as then those trying it would have the benifits of View as well.  Plus, as it'd all be client-side, it wouldn't have the risks associated with a server approach.  The downside is it'd be IE and Windows only.

'tis an interesting idea though!

Just got to the JSForth site - I didn't find it too friendly though...

[Gabriele]

Brian: just try out SECURE QUIT.

Carl/Guest: I think the Plugin would be the best way. However, note that while downloading and installing a Forth implementation is usually not so trivial, downloading Core to give it a try is a matter of seconds.