here's a fun fact
with ruby, if you set up a meta-interpreter, you can make a dialect of ruby where you can just push closures onto a stack using keywords so like
instead of doing str = String.new
you can just do
push String
new
store str
pop
@boots which would be worse: Ruby written in Forth, or Forth in Ruby?
@boots
from what I've tasted of (oh dear)
I held with those who banished Ruby.
but I think I know enough of jorts
to say that Forth
is also bad.