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by octetta 2519 days ago
I deployed Atlast into a consumer media device in the mid-90's.

Essentially I used it as a scripting language for writing user facing setup GUI dialogs.

The justification was that the GUI screens were art-directed by an offsite team and changed at a rate faster than the team could react to.

Some fundamental GUI words in Forth made things compose-able and quick (at least for me).

I thought was great, as I'm a Forth fan(atic), but "normal" SW folks didn't take too kindly to it.

Since I wrote a crap-ton of Postscript code in a previous job, it worked well with the thought process developed there.

In retrospect, if I'd known about TclTk, I might have gone down that path though.