Indeed. Why did grass shears loose out to lawnmowers? The question is misguided, they are two different categories. The interesting question is why Forth lost

Indeed. Why did grass shears loose out to lawnmowers? The question is misguided, they are two different categories. The interesting question is why Forth lost out to BASIC on the home computers. There were a few that were Forth based, and there were RPL on calculators, so that whole programming paradigm could conceivably have caught on. I wonder how that would have affected other kinds of programming...