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Why not FORTH? It may not have some features out of the box (no type checking - which isn't as bad as it sounds with FORTH) but newer runtimes tend to put those things in and/or are fairly easily implemented yourself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language)

also, system level REPL is some hardcore nerdity.

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FORTH is neat, but I think you need to be too smart to use it. I made a list of other things I want under the peer post about LUA, some of that applies to FORTH.

> I made a list of other things I want under the peer post about LUA, some of that applies to FORTH.

Incidentally, while Forth comes from the era of ALLCAPS language names, even its creator Chuck Moore calls it Forth: https://web.archive.org/web/20040131054056/http://www.colorf... ; and Lua never was spelled with all caps.

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