The Oforth Programming Language
I&#x27;m a forth programmer, I&#x27;ve implemented an editor in forth, a more(1) clone in forth, a grep(1) in forth and I did a bunch of stuff I&#x27;ve forgotten in forth for the geophysics department at UW Madison.<p>I HATE forth.  It&#x27;s a miserable language, I just hate it.<p>And then I went to Sun and the boot prom language was forth, still hated it.<p>Then I got to PCs.  The BIOS had no language and then Intel did whatever garbage they did and I was like please, just give me Forth.  It&#x27;s not what I&#x27;d do for debugging a panic but I could make it work.  The Intel stuff was way worse.<p>I suspect that Mitch priced himself out, otherwise we&#x27;d all be using Forth as the boot language, I dunno what happened.  But if you had asked me 20 years ago would I be saying anything positive about forth I would have kicked you in the XXXs.  Yet here I am wishing that forth was how we dealt with a panic.  We&#x27;d all be happier.