Because forth is an exercise in minimalism, its answer to most features is YAGNI. The coolest thing about it is how easy something as weird as forth maps to the

Because forth is an exercise in minimalism, its answer to most features is YAGNI. The coolest thing about it is how easy something as weird as forth maps to the quite different different underlying (register-based) hardware, so you can use a forth to bootstrap something with more sugar.