> Have you ever REALLY used Forth???  I did back in the early 80's and HATED
> it!!  It was fine for small jobs, but larger applications were terrible!!  I
> spent more time trying to get around the order things were on the stack than
> I did productive work!

Maybe it's different personalities or styles of programming. Forth was
a popular language on memory-limited machines because the parsing was
so simple. I even wrote one for a 68000 board I had.

It's a very powerful language once you get your head into the right space.

Rick Cook wrote a series of books where a master hacker used Forth as
the basis for a magical system (a hacker was "kidnapped" from our world
into a fantasy world and built his own magic compiler; the sequal had
a bunch of more traditional programmers invited over to "fix" the compiler
and make it less of a kludge). The book is called _Wizard's Bane_ and
_The Wizardry Compiled_. Knowing Forth makes these books hillarious.
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