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by rpcope1 4042 days ago
I still write some Forth occasionally, it's really awesome for embedded systems, as it runs on little MCUs like AVR. It's so cool to update the program without reflashing the MCU, and have potentially have an interactive interpreter on such low resource processors.

I think becoming proficient with Forth has also made me a better programmer in other languages; for example stack based iterative replacements for recursion come easier, as well as other stack based algorithms. It also makes understand the CPython VM a lot easier.

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Some people compare FORTH with game GO or philosophy ZEN. Very simple rules. And you build an own universe. And all of this fits into a very small size. As you also mentioned.