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It is a grave error to introduce Forth without noting that it is universally recognized as the First Programming Religion.

Lately Lisp and Rust have begun to take on religious overtones, but Forth came first.

It is probably also a mistake to introduce it without mentioning that the first two (normally one-character) words defined are pronounced "builds" and "does".

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Lately? Lisp has been a religion for decades.

Decades counts as lately. Are there any other programming religions?

Haskell, Julia, Rust, Lisp, and Forth are 'esoteric' enough to create an in-crowd, who are quite often deluded by imagined miraculous solutions to people's problems.

Please repeat after Fred Brooks: there ain't no silver bullet.

To a certain extent this goes on outside programming languages per se: OOP, Gang of Four, Agile match the pattern as well.

Feel APL similar in-crowd member too, though perhaps even more niche

Yup. Also HolyC (literally a religious undertaking), but the crowd had only one person, and he is no longer with us.

Went to a better place, one hopes. Maybe one where he is appreciated, and not considered mad.

The "in-crowd" vibe is very different from religion. We admire a language for its strengths, but worship it for its faults. APL is beginning to shade into theological territory.

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