In a most abstract sense, Chuck has made things that espouse the responsibility of the programmer to think for themselves, whereas the industry has run with reckless abandon in the opposite direction.
Chuck is a one-of-a-kind visionary, without a doubt. I discovered Forth when I was in college, back in the early 1980's. My first attraction to it was just the fact that it's RPN - I used a Hewlett Packard calculator at the time and swore by RPN. Later I realized how much deeper Forth's beauty and elegance runs. It's an amazing concept.
🇨🇱 Amazing ‼️ The shortest 40 minutes in my life 😀 Being an early FORTH fan since the 70's, I enyoied this sort of modernized nostalgia. Chuck Moore being a true pioneer genius 👍‼️ Saludos desde 🇨🇱
I was using Forth in the early 80's on an Apple ][ to analyse rest data in a destructive test lab when I first started workingvanba mechanical engineer. Used Forth for nearly 5 years. Still have fond memories of those times.
Having programmed a TIS-100 to my wits end, the concept of neighbouring computers talking to each other is not entirely alien to me ☺️. Forth is certainly quite an interesting "if only" discussion...
I think one of these chips would pair well with Sharp's memory displays for an ultra low power 'smart watch'. The ultimate dream however would be a Forth display, in which each cell/core is paired 1:1 with a pixel.
The only problem I have with the whole color approach is that I can't tell yellow from green very well in his screens. And then of course it raises the whole issue of sharing source code in conventional ways - there's really no way to write out that source code in a medium that doesn't support color. But, I really think that using color vs. using punctuation is a "minor matter" - it's not really germane to how the language WORKS. In Chuck's work, he's really interested in his own work within his own system, so how to share source code isn't really relevant.
The challenge these days is not to create computing devices. The challenge is to make them safe and secure. Safe enough to entrust them human life, secure enough to be unhackable.
