Forth...

Here's a discussion about Forth, a programming language blast-from-the-past for me.  There was, in the late '70s, a period of time when Forth was the only high-level langauge for microcomputers that actually worked reasonably well for real-world projects.  I used it fairly extensively on Z80s, and a bit less on several different Intel single-chip solutions.  I liked it a lot - it was very light-wieght, lent itself very well to a serial terminal development environment, and let me build up a library of “stuff” that I could use as tools in different environments.  Turbo Pascal was the first practicable alternative I found to Forth, and that wasn't useful in embedded systems.  Forth and assembler were the only languages I ever used in that world...