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Forth would be a good choice too. No GC, use 'forget'.

We used Forth back in the day as well, running on 6811 microcontrollers. Forth was also used on the Galileo Magnetometer, and we used Lisp to develop a patch for it in flight.

https://github.com/rongarret/gll-mag-patch/

Forth, in fact, is. https://www.forth.com/resources/space-applications/

'Was' is more likely. The list is from 2003, and if FORTH Inc, the (only? biggest?) remaining forth company hasn't updated it...

Forth is used in firmware and tons of places. There's ANS Forth and no need to 'update' anything, as there are tons of implementations.

As with Lisp, you can bootstrap themselves with very few primitives.

I read a comment on /r/Forth the other day from someone at NASA, implying that Forth was still actively used for something.

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