question: Python or Lua for rejuvenation of old PCs?

[Frank Bechmann]

he was writing about a 

>> distributed, fault-tolerant home monitoring and control system that
>> would be easy to port later to embedded microcontrollers

which is not so far from

>> embedded controller tasks

if my english is not too worse.

and whether FORTH is too much of an inconvenience is in the eyes of
the beholder - but I have to admit that your statement is true for the
vast majority of programmers and that I forgot to add a :).