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Why Forth?



• Forth is one of the few environments that is totally comprehensible by one person.



• Forth has no inherent fixed syntax -- programming is done by extending the language to your application. Thus, it can become what ever you need it to be.



• Forth has a "low floor; high ceiling" approach to abstraction -- that is, it can be both low level, high level and anywhere in-between.



• You can get an application to run in a minuscule amount of flash or RAM.



• Forth is likely the most compact way to represent software.



• You can try things out interactively in real time as you build your system.



• The compiling functionality is an exposed part of the language like everything else.