I was there ( Tucson ..70,s) , thinking Forth for that many years . I get the impression that you all haven't heard of the improvements. No wonder with ANSI standardizing an obsolete HLL . also , no wonder with the "hooks" to popular op sys being sold, not given free .... You had no chance of knowing . Visual F' is coming . It's the OpSys ,HLL , No bloat , it fits in < 250KB , has TCP/IP , TaskSwitching ( Multitasking was a bad idea for the authority in the kernel rather than in the task where it belongs ). Device Drivers are trusted or else they run in Ring 3 ... The kernel has far less work to do , is only a way to IPC ( InterProcComm) and a bit more . It does have power to prevent access to dev drvrs once they are trusted . Forth no longer uses the stack in the source code , it's too hard to read the code . It is used only at the lowest levels , when you write prim's and such . Forth has an embedded assembler , that one can group op codes to make very short prims that are not quite whole prims but are used when coding to get the most elegant code . They can alos be the material of future Prim's .
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