I never understood the "naming things" part to be about temporary variables. IMO it's about exported APIs, global identifiers, and especially about finding reso

I never understood the "naming things" part to be about temporary variables. IMO it's about exported APIs, global identifiers, and especially about finding resources by some useful name in a distributed system. In any case, Forth is a language for implementing your own DSLs by defining a whole bunch of "words" that all need to be named. So it's not like you get around the harder part of "naming things".