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For anyone looking for an alternative point of view, consider reading https://yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines.html https://yosefk.com/blog/

• carapace 7y ago
  This is more about the author than Forth. > What does this say about Forth? Not much except that it isn't for me. > I still find Forth amazing, and I'd gladly hack on it upon any opportunity. It still gives you the most bang for the buck – it implements the most functionality in the least space. > As to using Forth as a source of ideas on programming and language design in general – not me. I find that those ideas grow out of an approach to problem solving that I could never apply. Anyway Forth is one "existence proof", Arcfide's APL compiler is another. To repeat: We could get the same value out of much less code than we do. If we had 1/100th of the code we could use the time and mental energy thus liberated to do other better things.