FORTH & HP: where to start?

[mfleming]

1. Transfer finished files to the 71B using a PIL-Box.

2. Never tried this. The repo is six years old, so probably not even supported by the author anymore.

Do a search on "Forth IDE" and you'll find links to SwiftForth by Forth Inc, or VFX Forth for Windows by MPE (MicroProcessor Engineering Ltd). Both are freely downloadable but may time out and request a license.

Note that emacs has a Forth mode for files with the '.fs' extension. Has keyword coloring support but little else. Hit F10 to access menu bar. The command M-x shell will spawn a shell you can interact with to run gforth and feed it commands.

Old (ahem, 'seasoned') programmers like me would consider emacs a perfectly good IDE.