From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 07:39:15 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:   
      
   > I was interested in Forth in the early days because it seemed like a   
   > solution for systems with very limited resources. The interpreter is (I   
   > believe) quite small, and your application can be built up from just the   
   > words you need with no added cruft. That was the attraction of C for me   
   > back then, too. Unfortunately C gave up the idea of being a small   
   > language and has ballooned and become less clear and readable.   
      
   Nevertheless, it is still feasible to cross-compile C code from a machine   
   with more resources available, to one with much less.   
      
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