Where would one read about Forth's principles? Colour me intrigued.
https://www-cdf.fnal.gov/offline/PostScript/BLUEBOOK.PDF
fnal.gov is the largest, most complete trove of postscript language material on the net.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1680149
The weird stuff makes a lot of people decide not to use it. So, they should know ahead of time. I do think there's potential for a Forth with less weird stuff or more compatible with C. There could even be one already given a benefit of Forth is it's easy to write interpreters for it. On that note, here's a tutorial series illustrating that: