Forth has a long history of being a popular hacker language. It is simple to bootstrap. It is expressive. It can be a very powerful system. [jephthal] took the excellent Mecrisp Forth and put it ...

I never did any COBOL but did some work with Pascal, Forth, and SNOBOL which are from ... APL was referred to as a ‘write only language’ because it was often easier to simply rewrite a piece ...