Back in 2004 or so - ancient days now - I remember an elderly programmer on #gobolinux (freenode IRC back in the days) who kept on praising Forth. I never under

Back in 2004 or so - ancient days now - I remember an elderly programmer on #gobolinux (freenode IRC back in the days) who kept on praising Forth. I never understood why, but he liked Forth a lot. Now - that in itself doesn't mean a whole lot, as it is just anecdotal, but people who are very passionate about programming languages are quite rare. I've not seen something like that happen with any other language (excluding also another guy on #gobolinux who liked Haskell). I did not see anyone praise, say, PHP, perl, JavaScript etc.... Some languages people don't like to talk about much. Forth though was different in that regard. I never got into it; I feel it has outlived the modern era like many other languages, but that guy who kept on talking about it I still remember. His website also was built in Forth and it was oddly enough kind of an "interactive" website (perhaps he also used JavaScript, I forgot, but I seem to remember he said most or all of it was implemented in Forth - turtles all down the way).