Its my baby

Started implementing my own stack based language. I have played a bit with factor and liked it, so I decided to base some things from it. I also have started to read a little more on forth and have now understood how some basic constructs can be created. Especially useful is jonesforth. The code is a must read!

So, the design goals I have in mind are as follows.

1. Must be in embeddable in C. My main goal here is to be like Lua. A small library that you can call from C. The main users of this language would be hardcode C programmers esp. on embedded linux and embedded linux system testers. 
2. Must be written in ANSI C. Factor implementation has moved to C++ and also has a lot work going on in creating a fast and optimizing VM. I don't have that goal, as I want to be able to port my language very quickly to different hardware. The easiest way to port? Just recompile. Obviously, you lose out on some performance, but that's ok. The target audience will code most of the fast bits in C anyways.
3. Must be simple. System testers should be able to use this language very quickly to write small tests. The main part of the test application itself would be written in C, but the scripting part would be in this language.
4. Support for quotations, sequences. Ideas from Factor (and lisp) and good ones too!
5. Reader macros would primarily be from C. 

So far, I have the basic language working. It supports numbers, strings and quotations. You can define your own "words" and run them. There is a "if" control structure and a "loop" control structure. The implementation is still very buggy though. 

Will keep posting as I progress.