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Pro Can be used in interactive mode in place of OS
On extremely low-power devices, it can serve as a basic shell that allows you to do whatever you want to do. This isn't practical on any modern devices, as even the simplest modern day chips capable of hooking up to a monitor has enough power to run a bash shell, but it can still be used virtually as a FORTH interpreter is a lot easier to program than a bash emulator.
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Forth
Recommended 3 years ago
It is easy to mess up. Like with every powerful, flexible system. But it is also easy to write a very powerful system with it. You can create a Forth Interpreter/Compiler easily on a niche controller (well, relatively easy). Try this with a C compiler. You will be very hard pressed. Forth is the hardware inv...