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 = Star Forth
-== What's forth?
-Starting Forth is available online at [[https://www.forth.com/starting-forth/0-starting-forth/|Starting Forth Online Edition]].
-Another book: [[https://sinclairql.speccy.org/archivo/docs/books/Threaded_interpretive_languages.pdf|Threaded Interpretive Languages]].
 == Welcome to Star Forth
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 * 87 native words: BYE, ., .S, CR, DUP, DROP, SWAP, OVER, +, -, *, /, MOD, EMIT, DEPTH, WORDS, ...
 * 26 defined words: MIN, MAX, ABS, NEGATE, RAND, SPACES, TYPE, ROT, NIP, TUCK, ...
-* Outer interpreter with TIB (Terminal Input Buffer), word parser, dictionary search, number parsing
 * Control flow (IF/THEN/ELSE, BEGIN/UNTIL, DO/LOOP) and Memory words (pointers, peek, poke)
-* Stack primitives with underflow protection
-* Optional binary and hexadecimal input and output
-* : and ; (colon definitions)
-* Paste-friendly '> ' stripping
-* AND, OR, XOR, NOT bitwise operations
 * to-r, r-from, and r-at return stack manipulators
-* VARIABLE, CONSTANT and CREATE
+* REPL (interpreter with terminal)
-* EXECUTE and ' (tick) -- find and run word from address
-* Native U. (unsigned decimal 32 bit number, vs. HEX mode which is unsigned already)
-Star Forth has some words from Forth-83, such as LSHIFT and RSHIFT, and is missing some from FORTH-79. That's because you can define the remaining words inside forth itself and I think that's cool. Therefore, at start, more than 30 new words are autoloaded into the dictionary; they're defined in FORTH itself and are not native. Included are great new words like RAND (100 1 RAND gives a number from 1 to 100) and ENSEED which adds entropy to the RNG.
 For more information see:
+* [[Star Forth Dictionary]]
 * [[Star Forth Test Suite]]
-* [[Star Forth Dictionary]]
-For a comprehensive reference to each of these commands see [[Star Forth Dictionary]].
+* Starting Forth is available online at [[https://www.forth.com/starting-forth/0-starting-forth/|Starting Forth Online Edition]].
+* Another book: [[https://sinclairql.speccy.org/archivo/docs/books/Threaded_interpretive_languages.pdf|Threaded Interpretive Languages]].
 == Why Forth?