Forth is maybe one step up from an assembly language for a stack machine. Is Forth difficult to master? Yes, partly because the target hardware is alien, but

Forth is maybe one step up from an assembly language for a stack machine. Is Forth difficult to master? Yes, partly because the target hardware is alien, but mostly because you're doing things in glorified assembly posing as a higher level language than it really is. And the syntax is screwy. No wonder it's a massive struggle to do anything more than trivial projects in Forth, writing assembly is always a huge pain in the ass. We need to get past Forth's exoticism and see it for what it really is: assembly + a huge dose of obfuscating downtrodden underdog philosophy.