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Re:Lisp in Forth by bifrost on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @09:23PM (#26884328)
People are just poking around with it because its a mature language thats been used for a lot of embedded things. Its been in several bootloaders as well. The FreeBSD bootloader uses it so I technically use it any time I boot my machine heh.

Imagine being able to run LISP in the bootrom of a random machine :)

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Re:Lisp in Forth by sigjuice on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @11:05PM (#26884983)
The FreeBSD bootloader made the switch to Lua.
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Re:Lisp in Forth by bifrost on Friday April 23, 2021 @06:58PM (#26920234)
Just checked, its still Forth on my 12.X & 14.X box.

It looks like there's an option to use Lua but it doesn't appear to be the default, I'm taking a look to see how to enable it now.

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Re:Lisp in Forth by ollran on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @11:53PM (#26885250)
I believe Illumos bootloader still includes a Forth interpreter.
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