They make great foundations, since their simplicity allows them to be conveniently adapted to whatever purpose. I too find dogmatic Forth a struggle to reason

They make great foundations, since their simplicity allows them to be conveniently adapted to whatever purpose. I too find dogmatic Forth a struggle to reason about, which is why we're here I guess. A type system in combination with generic methods help a lot, since most mistakes are caught in dispatch and give reasonable error messages.