kris Wrote:

> Andreas Kochenburger wrote:
> > Kevin Bealer wrote:
> > 
> >> Charles D Hixson wrote:
> >> But the central feature of FORTH is that the compiler and runtime can
> >> be made mind-bogglingly small.  I think the run time speed for a naive
> >> interpretation is probably somewhere between C and interpreted bytecode.
> >>
> >>  From this page about tiny4th: http://www.seanet.com/~karllunt/tiny4th
> >>
> >> "The run-time engine takes up less than 1K of code space and the p-codes are so dense that you can get a lot of robot functionality in just 2K."
> > 
> > 
> > Before someone thinks, Forth is only a play-thing, see http://www.forth.com/
> > 
> > There are also excellent freeware versions around, f.ex. http://win32forth.sourceforge.net/
> > 
> > There is even ans ANS / ISO standard for the language.
> > 
> > Andreas
> 
> 
> Yeah, Forth is an incredibly powerful language

I was into Forth, back in the day. The strange thing is, I don't think it ever affected my programming in any other language.
It's hard to imagine something easier to lex...