Forth is a notorious "write-only language", it's hard to decipher what your code is doing after you've written it.

As someone that spent a couple of years dabbling in forth before moving on to Ruby, I became a lot more appreciative of the sheer readability of Ruby, and ruby-inspired languages like coffeescript & elixir.

However I still have a soft spot for the ethos of Chuck Moore. Abstractions are something that we should be wary of as programmers.