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I am nodding along, but we can't say we write in assembly for speed, if we don't achieve much of it, can we? Especially if portable C turns out to not actually be slower.

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Yeah I'm not going to defend FORTH as a practical language -- it's annoying to write significant programs in it. However it does fit in a smaller space than C (probably).

I'm currently writing an ML derivative language for smaller systems and I hope that'll be practical while at the same time being a better alternative to C.

Have you looked at ATS? http://www.ats-lang.org/

Not until now. I was writing a language because it's fun, not because it's intended to be useful though.

This style of threaded code shines in making it compact. So it's useful for bootloaders and other very constrained environments.

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