Ran across this post years before I started playing with Forth (recommend the whole blog, he's a great writer).

Later I was going through a Forth phase and came back to it to tackle the puzzle it poses, here's my take on it:

https://mnemnion.github.io/blog/2014/01/12/those-dadgum-adde...

I hope this illustrates the raw power of the Forth paradigm a bit better than the OP.