If OP shared what caused him to think this thought perhaps a good conversation would happen.
Regardless of whether what is proposed is a false dichotomy, I think the post The Recovering Programmer [1] offers some explanation for what motivates the author of this blog, as does Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology [2].
The key quote from the latter would be
Slowly, not in a grand epiphany, I realized that there was something missing from the discussions in [comp.lang.forth]. There was talk of tiny Forths, of redesigning control structures, of ways of getting by with fewer features, and of course endless philosophical debates, but no one was actually doing anything with the language, at least nothing that was in line with all the excitement about the language itself.
I understand the whole series as intended to correct the reader's not caring enough about their problem domain (or, in the worst case, not having a problem domain at all). As such, it may overemphasize the importance of the problem domain to the exclusion of everything else for pedagogical reasons.
FWIW A startup I CTO is doing pretty neat things with what is, in effect, an end-user Forth. Think at the level of difficulty as creating a spreadsheet.
Overall, I agree though with your comment about the Forth community in general.
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Regardless of whether what is proposed is a false dichotomy, I think the post The Recovering Programmer [1] offers some explanation for what motivates the author of this blog, as does Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology [2].
The key quote from the latter would be
I understand the whole series as intended to correct the reader's not caring enough about their problem domain (or, in the worst case, not having a problem domain at all). As such, it may overemphasize the importance of the problem domain to the exclusion of everything else for pedagogical reasons.
[1] http://prog21.dadgum.com/56.html
[2] http://prog21.dadgum.com/128.html
FWIW A startup I CTO is doing pretty neat things with what is, in effect, an end-user Forth. Think at the level of difficulty as creating a spreadsheet.
Overall, I agree though with your comment about the Forth community in general.