I went to a Forth Users' Group meeting once and they had a contest to
    see who could write code that no one else could figure out what it did!

There's an "obfuscated C" contest as well, not to mention languages like APL
and TECO.  FORTH is particularly easy to parse, because what would be
complex parser issues like forward references become ... inconvenient order
of things on the stack.  Most of the time things are simplified overall,
especially for very simple programs (which is what we're talking about
here.)  I gather that the other language with similarly trivial parsing is
LISP, but I've never implemented a lisp interpretter.

BillW

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