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by 6thaccount2 2480 days ago
Forth in general is mainly used in situations where one is in close contact with the hardware (Assembly and C are the usual competitors).

It basically lets you string together a bunch of primitives and user defined functions using a stack. It is probably the only system that is useful where a single person can understand the entire language and implementation. You have to build everything yourself though.