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by misterm 5666 days ago
Is anyone still using this in a production environment? I don't think I've ever seen a language like this one before.
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Do you consider boot ROMs production environments?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware

FreeBSD's boot loader uses a dialect of forth.

Forth makes MUCH more sense in an embedded context, IMHO.

>Forth makes MUCH more sense in an embedded context, IMHO.

Forth is just unbeatable in an embedded context. Minimal porting of a few basic words and you're up and running with fully functional environment you can adjust on-the-fly.