I learned Forth specifically to get a posted job shortly after this book was published but my first exposure to the language was through a port someone in my lo

I learned Forth specifically to get a posted job shortly after this book was published but my first exposure to the language was through a port someone in my local computer club did onto the ZX-81 (he also built a raster graphics system!). There are concepts in Forth that are included in some modern languages/environments but I agree that it's really not suited for much today. We used it in control systems and today would probably choose something like Erlang instead - it was perfect for this type of application.