It would, except that the JVM is short a stack -- Forth really likes having two. A Toy Forth is a great next step after writing a Toy Lisp. It's like exploring an alternate universe, where any sort of abstraction between you and the hardware should be knocked down in the name of simplicity.
A few great places to get started:
- Forth Warrior, a programming game using a java-based Forth machine with 2d sprites.
- Jones Forth, a literate x86 forth implementation (great for learning plumbing)
- Retro Forth, a minimalist little virtual machine and Forth image that targets it.
None of these are ANS Forth / FIG Forth / etc compatible, which I think is in keeping with Moore's tradition of just whipping up a new dialect whenever he has a new problem domain.
[1]: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Mako/tree/master/games/Warrio...
[2]: http://git.annexia.org/?p=jonesforth.git;a=blob_plain;f=jone...