As a counterpoint to this article, I'd point to Yossi Kreinin's excellent "My History with Forth & Stack Machines" [1] which has been posted on HN before [2] an

As a counterpoint to this article, I'd point to Yossi Kreinin's excellent "My History with Forth & Stack Machines" [1] which has been posted on HN before [2] and which discusses more extensively the particulars of Forth as a powerful toolbox of primitive operations, as well as the use of Forth in actual applications. [1]: http://www.yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines.html http://www.yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machi... [2]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1680149 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1680149