BIF-C is a near fig-FORTH implemented in C.

The first release version is mostly a direct transliteration of BIF-6809, 
a near fig-FORTH I wrote for school many years ago. 

This collection of files (step 05mw) is from a backup taken at a point 
after rolling back to global W and IP, when I was debugging some 
definitions I and decided to try the source in the old Metrowerks Pro 5
compiler for classic Mac. Problems with initializing globals with 
pointers to structures declared in the code and such.

I had forgotten those problems, although I at this point remembered that 
they were part of the reason I have abandoned this particular 
evolutionary path at least twice in the past. ERK.

(Progress in GCC is what makes this evolutionary branch possible this 
time around!)

If I want this to run on the classic Mac, I'll need to restructure the 
symbol table, to explicitly build it at load time in C. (Could be done 
in FORTH i-codes, but that's really not a good idea.) It can be done, 
but I didn't really know what I needed to be looking ahead at when I 
tried to do that before.

I have debugging code in the inner interpreter, and macros in bifu_i.h 
to turn it on and off, among other things.

It is not functional, although INTERPRET works to a point, allowing some 
postfix expression evaluation, if I remember correctly. 

It is only provided for historical value.

See LICENSE.TXT for terms of use.

Reiisi Kenkyuu is, at the point of this writing, a business operating 
name of Joel Matthew Rees, originally of Odessa, Texas, currently of 
Amagasaki, Hyougo, Japan. Someday I plan to incorporate under the name. 

