points by isr 2 days ago | 0 comments
Have you considered factor? Its from the joy-inspired branch of the forth/concatenative family, but its a heavily underrated, batteries included language. Which has a bit of a smalltalk feel given its image-based deployment and the "live" nature of its tools (graphical repl, object inspectors, etc)
fallat said they were interested in teaching a 'grassroots' language. By that I think they mean something with a minimal core language and compact interpreter, so Forth seems like the better fit.