Forth is really neat. It's a rare langauge that has the same abilities as C to deal with hardware, but is a higher level language than assembly, and isn't C. Mo

Forth is really neat. It's a rare langauge that has the same abilities as C to deal with hardware, but is a higher level language than assembly, and isn't C. Most languages in common use today have reached a level of abstraction where direct hardware interaction is either impossible or discouraged. Also, my time with Lisp has taught me that interactive environments are A Good Thing, and Forth is exceedingly interactive, and has better native introspection than many Lisps (when your guts are strewn across the floor, it's hard to hide them). But for all that is good about it, Forth does have its problems: depending on how well your problem maps to the stack, Forth can be exceedingly painful. A discussion of Forth's flaws, of course, would not be complete without a link to Yossi Kreinin's now-famous post on the subject: http://yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines.html http://yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines....