This garage door opening story reminds me of something that happened in the 50's. The first powerful comm satellites happened to use a frequency that garage doors used (no id codes then). Garage doors opened and closed by themselves. My grandmother had it happen to her.
I have a place in my heart for concatenative languages. When I was a junior engineer in 1970 working on the first sealed hard disk, I used forth to build test routines for the disk. I started with transferring bytes, to seeking, up to reading any block. It went fast and was very flexible.