yes, it has always been an influence for me, in fact 9 years ago I implemented a Forth interpreter in plain WAT[2] by de-obfuscating a IOCCC Forth implementation[3] and reimplementing it in Wasm and JS[4]

[1] https://github.com/marianoguerra/ricardo-forth

[2] https://github.com/marianoguerra/ricardo-forth/blob/master/s...

[3] https://www.ioccc.org/1992/buzzard.2/

[4] https://github.com/marianoguerra/ricardo-forth/blob/master/s...