good Forth implementation (not for embedding)

SP-Forth.

http://spf.sourceforge.net/

If you have a Debian-based distribution, then type "apt-cache search Forth" and look at the list returned. This list will be short enough and only a few positions will be actual implemenations of the Forth programming language like gforth, kforth, pforth, yforth and so on. Then you will be able to proceed with the following search.

Such an approach works much better than Googling :)

> Any good introductory books (like PCL but not for dummies :)

Leo Brodie `Thinking Forth' (pdf, en, ru)

Thanks, I will have a look at it.

> If you have a Debian-based distribution, then type "apt-cache search Forth"

never crossed my mind :). thanks.

awesome. thanks for the link.

> What is the most(best?) actively developed and mature Forth implementation that could be run on Linux, Mac OS X and win32?

http://ronware.org/reva/

http://www.gnu.org/software/gforth/

~~ http://www.forth.org/

> Any good introductory books (like PCL but not for dummies :)

ftp://ftp.uu.net/vendor/minerva/x3j14/j14-94.htm

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Forth_Lessons

~~ http://wiki.forth.org.ru/%D3%F7%E5%E1%ED%E8%EA%E8%D4%EE%F0%F2%E0

> Does anyone know some simple Forth implementations written in CL or Scheme, and vice versa.

http://peter.sovietov.googlepages.com/forth-fp.html

См. про эмуляцию лиспа и пролога на форте - К.Таунсенд Д.Фохт "Проектирование и программная реализация экспертных систем на персональных ЭВМ" (изд."Финансы и статистика" 1990). ( http://www.forth.org.ru/~kp/taunsend.zip )

P.S. http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/ftp.dei.isep.ipp.pt/pub/forth/others/p...