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"Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> writes:
> IMO understanding Forth implementation strategies is a diversion from
> the objective of learning how to use it in *applications*, which is
> its purpose. 

It seems to me that a lot of Forth's design is driven by enabling the
implementation of Forth in Forth.  That is, Forth *is* a Forth
application, maybe even an archetypal application.

I've found eForth (Bill Muench's original version, not one of the ports)
to be the most enlightening and understandable Forth implementations
that I've looked at so far.