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Chuck Moore, Extreme Programmer

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Re: Chuck Moore, Extreme Programmer

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Post by orf »

> If you have read any of Chuck Moore's work, you know that he is an extreme programmer in the literal sense of the word: a unique philosophy that embraces small, fast, self-contained programs in a spare language and an impressive development environment

I haven't read any of his work, what is impressive about his development environment?

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Post by DonbunEf7 »

orf wrote: post #2

> If you have read any of Chuck Moore's work, you know that he is an extreme programmer in the literal sense of the word: a unique philosophy that embraces small, fast, self-contained programs in a spare language and an impressive development environment I haven't read any of his work, what is impressive about his development environment?

He designed CPUs from scratch using a bare-bones minimal Forth (ColorForth) as his preferred way of writing code. The resulting chipset is utterly fascinating: http://www.greenarraychips.com/

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Post by teddyh »

Quote from (http://www.ultratechnology.com/1xforth.htm):

“I wish I knew what to tell you that would lead you to write good Forth. I can demonstrate. I have demonstrated in the past, ad nauseam, applications where I can reduce the amount of code by 90% percent and in some cases 99%. It can be done, but in a case by case basis. The general principle still eludes me.”

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Post by CarlHansen »

Based on the Silicon Valley Forth Interest Group email list, Chuck Moore has declared that he has retired from social media, he has not retired from Forth. He is scheduled to speak at Forth Day, November 18, 2017, as he has for years. https://svfig.github.io/ http://www.forth.org/svfig/next.html

Re: Chuck Moore, Extreme Programmer

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Post by wyattk »

I want to take a moment to reflect on what a great community HN has. It never ceases to amaze me.

The link is from the CS department at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, IA. It sounds obscure, but that's my hometown. I grew up a couple blocks away from it. I sat in on classes there. I even know the author's family. That's small town Iowa, for ya.

I never thought I would see anything related to that on here. This is truly a place for all.

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