Charles Moore is retiring from Forth
larsbrinkhoff opened this issue ยท 11 comments
According to Elizabeth Rather's message <rpKdnTO0YNl3_DbEnZ2dnUU7-dHNnZ2d@supernews.com> to comp.lang.forth, Charles Moore is retiring from Forth.
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!
Stop the presses!
Greg assures me that Chuck is not retired, he is still doing work for Greenarrays, however he has withdrawn his online presence because it was taking too much of his time.
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.
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/)
:)
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)