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> I've been craving for a trivial, embedded scripting language that feels just right for a long, long time; something I can quickly drop into any project that needs scripting without too much ceremony.

How are you quickly and casually going to drop in a scripting language into any project, if it requires Common Lisp?

Maybe this means "into any CL project". But why would you need a scripting language in a CL project.

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The idea doesn't really require Common Lisp; the same thing could be implemented in C with a bit more effort. But for me, any project mostly means Common Lisp as that's the first tool I reach for. I need a scripting language because exposing the full host language is not really scripting, pretending so is a cop out that always comes with unintended consequences. Given the right definitions, Forth reads like the kind of pseudo code most non-programmers would write; and the lack of syntactic fluff makes it a viable alternative for scenarios involving sequential processing, templating etc.

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