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Charles Moore is retiring from Forth #55
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Well, it depends on the definition of "retiring from active participation". |
Forth is great, but Chuck's greatest contribution was teaching that understanding and simplifying the problem was far more effective than adding complexity to a solution. Regardless of his "participation level" in Forth, I - for one - will miss his words of wisdom. |
Every time I build a FORTH or a subset start from scratch, it feels like experiencing the excitement what Charles Moore first found that computers can be utilized this way. Thank you sir! |
truly agree with you.
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Every time I build a FORTH or a subset start from scratch, it feels like
experiencing the excitement what Charles Moore first found that computers
can be utilized this way. Thank you sir!
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Stop the presses!
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/comp.lang.forth/LmthCiZ4Cjk/siGtIXOSBAAJ |
Hah! I didn't know he had one ;) |
It was colorforth.com, now archived at colorforth.github.io. |
We love CM. Did you mean you were unaware of his forths? Not uncommon, as
fig and Forth Inc were main translations availble til his colorforth and
evolved into GA hw.
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Hah! I didn't know he had one ;)
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I meant he almost never graced us with a digital appearance in the form of forum posts. (And btw I made a ColorForth-like, http://retroforth.org/glypher/) :) |
It always seemed to me, from a handful of personal interactions, that
Chuck preferred to speak via his code and inventions, rather than
engaging in public debate. He can write and speak clearly, befitting
someone of his profound capabilities, but it seemed that he often just
let his amazing work speak for itself.
Elizabeth Rather, on the other hand, stands out as one of the finest
wordsmiths I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. Many times during
the ANS Forth deliberations, ER would suggest a beautifully elegant
phrasing for some difficult-to-express concept.
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form of forum posts.
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This was also one of the subjects of the EuroForth 2018 interview with Chuck Moore: At 01 h 37 min 43 secs: "GreenArrays ... ceremonial post ... for all intents and purposes, I am retired."" There are often playback problems with that link, but the interview is also on YouTube: Interview with Chuck Moore (inventor of FORTH programming language) |
According to Elizabeth Rather's message <rpKdnTO0YNl3_DbEnZ2dnUU7-dHNnZ2d@supernews.com> to comp.lang.forth, Charles Moore is retiring from Forth.
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