Re: The joy of FORTH (not)

On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 08:41:38 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

Why would anyone want to use it, though?

For starters, it's about the simplest way to get a minimal interactive
system going on a homebrew/hobbyist computer project which still offers
full access to the bare metal; I was fairly amazed, looking into the
MaxiMite/DuinoMite community, to find a lovingly-crafted extended BASIC
which offered nothing at all in the way of a SYS/USR function. By
contrast, when I got a 65C02 homebrew system secondhand from somebody,
it took me about an hour and a half to get one of the various 6502
Forths up and running on it.