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On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 08:44:30 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

> When I worked at the VA, we had a fancy audiometer that had Forth built
> into it.
> 
> Later, I used a MIDI editor for the Atari ST, called "EditTrack", which
> I believe was written in Forth.  I met the authors at small Atari
> Convention in North Hollywood.  (Also saw IIRC Paul Haslinger showing
> off some music from "Risky Business", and a talk by a tall, dour Mick
> Fleetwood.)

Forth had it's uses. The core language with its RPN and heavily stack 
oriented approach was arcane. However you could develop a domain specific 
set of words so what the user typed in was very close to a natural 
language sentence.  They didn't have to know about the sausage factory 
underneath.