And of course, the first thing to do is to create arrays. But… Forth has no arrays! Oh god! What to do!? CREATE .. DOES>. Amazing, truly.

A natural question that beginners often ask is: Why doesn’t Forth have features that are standard in other languages, for example, arrays? The answer is that Forth is so facile at creating new data types that it is usually easier to invent something that exactly suits your needs than it is to force your program to conform to an arbitrary standard.