I often use Forth to write code for boxes that have to emulate a card  
reader
or pretend to be a very slow processor bus.
I use micros with Forth embedded.
see http://oh-god.com:5080/dir/Forth/NMI_Forth_68HC11.png
Gus

>
> On Jul 5, 2009, at 1:02 PM, Steve Willoughby wrote:
>
> Russell McMahon wrote:
>> One place Forth-like concepts survive today is in PostScript.  I  
>> think that
>> works because all the benefits of Forth are still there, but humans  
>> don't
>> write PostScript
>> ...
>
> Ha.  I was just writing some PostScript this morning to automate the
> creation of LightScribe labels for an archival program.  I've often
> found it useful to write PostScript directly.
>
> --steve
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