Rather than Crack, silicon appears to be his crystal of choice.
Actually, Chuck Moore's position is that "real world software design" is seriously flawed because it encourages modular complexity well beyond the "seven plus or minus two" cognative limits inherent in humans. He prefers a more atomic, hieracally testable approach where reuseable, tested and trusted code fragments converge on the solution through ascending scope. A revolotionary concept, given the current "real world software design" hedgemony.
Newton, Pasteur, Darwin,and Einstein had similar ideas. Remember, this man wrote his own CAD system from scratch (all bits set with his hands) that has produced the physical masks (pixel maps) that have been used to fabricate the dice for his processors.
After writing assemblers for more instruction sets than any man alive, he has spent the last 20 years coding in silicon.
The Raytheon Arline terminal systems of the early 80s were written in Forth with thousands of concurrent users hitting a shared database. Federal Express and other distributed databases with portable wands had thousands of concurrent users. By the end of the year, the majority of systems sold with UNIX pre-installed will boot with the "appropriate technology" OpenBoot that is Forth. All current Macintosh systems boot from Forth in ROM.
There are thousands of more examples such as these. Postscript is Forth, The Java Virtual Machine is indistinguishable from a Forth token interepreter.
You really ought to get out and about more.
To learn more about Forth, a reasonable online source is: http://www.forth.com/Content/History/History2.htm# 2.2
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Rather than Crack, silicon appears to be his crystal of choice. Actually, Chuck Moore's position is that "real world software design" is seriously flawed because it encourages modular complexity well beyond the "seven plus or minus two" cognative limits inherent in humans. He prefers a more atomic, hieracally testable approach where reuseable, tested and trusted code fragments converge on the solution through ascending scope. A revolotionary concept, given the current "real world software design" hedgemony. Newton, Pasteur, Darwin,and Einstein had similar ideas. Remember, this man wrote his own CAD system from scratch (all bits set with his hands) that has produced the physical masks (pixel maps) that have been used to fabricate the dice for his processors. After writing assemblers for more instruction sets than any man alive, he has spent the last 20 years coding in silicon.
The Raytheon Arline terminal systems of the early 80s were written in Forth with thousands of concurrent users hitting a shared database. Federal Express and other distributed databases with portable wands had thousands of concurrent users. By the end of the year, the majority of systems sold with UNIX pre-installed will boot with the "appropriate technology" OpenBoot that is Forth. All current Macintosh systems boot from Forth in ROM. There are thousands of more examples such as these. Postscript is Forth, The Java Virtual Machine is indistinguishable from a Forth token interepreter. You really ought to get out and about more. To learn more about Forth, a reasonable online source is: http://www.forth.com/Content/History/History2.htm# 2.2