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Lucy [hiatus era] 𒌋𒁯

actually how is forth not considered an esolang
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@lucy not esoteric. was actually used commercially for a time.
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@icedquinn @lucy FreeBSD bootloader is written in Forth iirc
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@scathach @lucy used to be one of the first languages running on exotic hardware, when that was still relevant.
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@lucy It was created for productive usage and got quite a lot of use cases (like for programming firmware or early embedded devices) plus not much more esoteric than like 6502 or RISC ISAs.
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@icedquinn @lucy @scathach wasn't the apple ppc bios forth?

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