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Re:GRiSP – Erlang-based IoT hardware platform by macintux on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @01:42AM (#13120910)
Shame no one told NASA what a useless language Forth is.

http://web.archive.org/web/20101024223709/http://forth.gsfc....

Re:GRiSP – Erlang-based IoT hardware platform by int_19h on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @04:26AM (#13121431)
I would be very interested to hear from someone using Forth in production (especially for something like the above link) on their personal experience wrt its advantages compared to other available options.
Re:GRiSP – Erlang-based IoT hardware platform by keithnz on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @06:33PM (#13127200)
one of my very first jobs we had products for monitoring underground petrol tanks and petrol (gas, even though it's not a gas ;-) ) pumps. All written in forth, while a bit obscure, actually was quite cool.

as an aside, The guy who was primarily responsible for that now has a FRP library ( http://sodium.nz/ ) and written a book on FRP using petrol pumps as an example

Re:GRiSP – Erlang-based IoT hardware platform by hood_syntax on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @09:13AM (#13122607)
It was also used for some of the drivers of a probe in the Rosetta mission (I think, at the very least it was a probe made by the ESA)