RipeTech

This set of pages is about my "FORTH" like interpreter and some of the applications, and scripts, that I have developed using my "FORTH".

Under then term RipeTech I generated a "FORTH" like interpreter that runs on Microsoft Windows based PCs.

When I found out about SQLite and that it was open source, and written in plain old "C" then I added it to my "FORTH" like executable.

My fascination with interpretive languages eventually drove me to implement a "BASIC" like interpreter (written in RipeTech "FORTH").

The applications and scripts developed in my "BASIC" are referred to as PlodWare and are found in a separate set if web pages on this site.

The RipeTech "FORTH" like interpreter was written in plain old "C". No MFC or WPF or any other framework was used, GUI management was done at the Windows API (Win32) message level.

Why be awkward, when, with a little effort you can be impossible.

The "FORTH" like environment supports:

• DLL access
• on-the-fly GUI creation
• automation (used to be called OLE Automation, or Object Linking & Embedding)
• access to SQLite to create/manage/delete databases and tables
• access to SQLite to handle queries and their responses
• exchange of information between SQLite queries and "FORTH" statements
• lots and lots more