Worked a bit more on #SystemForth for #ForthBox tonight. Implemented the COMPARE word to compare two strings.

I'm still trying to wrap my brain around how to perform a dictionary search using "standard" words.

I'm beginning to think it is physically impossible to do and still retain a degree of elegance.

Moore was right -- ANSI Forth was a disaster. It's perhaps best to think of ANSI Forth, and its progeny including the living standard at forth-standard.org, a museum for historical Forth dependencies.

Forgot to annotate the transcript above: it is the result of invoking TRAVERSE-CHAIN on a single vocabulary hash chain with a handler that does nothing more than print out the word's name. #ForthBox #SystemForth #WIP