Yes! In 1981 my wife gave me Loeliger's book as a birthday gift, which led to Forth being the first language I implemented and worked with for pay! Excellent bo

Yes! In 1981 my wife gave me Loeliger's book as a birthday gift, which led to Forth being the first language I implemented and worked with for pay! Excellent book (though the book's pseudocode has a couple of bugs .. I forget just where.) The local water board paid me to write a records-management program, for which Forth was a good way to access machine-level stuff. The biggest obstacle came from British Telecom, where we wanted to push voice data from the water flow meters over phone lines, and BT took a very long bureaucratic time to decide whether that should be permitted as speech or data.