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From: David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
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Subject: Re: on Perl
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 14:00:16 +0200
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On 16/04/2024 12:58, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> On 2024-04-16, David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
> 
>> Forth is alive and well, albeit not very common.  It is used in embedded
>> systems - it is almost certainly the smallest language and run-time
>> system where you can have a extendable high-level language, and runs
>> directly on even very small microcontrollers.
> 
> It has also been used since circa 1999 as the embedded language of
> the FreeBSD boot loader, another constrained environment.  In the
> end Forth proved too unpopular, few people touched it, and it is
> being replaced with Lua now.
> 

People who have used Forth a lot tend to be very enthusiastic about it, 
but it has a long learning curve to get up to speed.  This is a big 
disadvantage compared to "competitors" like Lua.  It is perhaps fair to 
say that Forth is alive and well as long as its current users are alive 
and well - as they retire, there are relatively few newcomers to the 
Forth community.