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Charles H. Moore Alive

Charles H. Moore
KindPerson
Born1938
StatusAlive
Fieldprogramming languages
Also known asChuck Moore
Sourcecolorforth.com ↗

Created Forth — two stacks and a dictionary — then kept going down to chip-level with colorForth.

Worked at Fairchild Semiconductor Intel
Created Fairchild Semiconductor Intel Forth

Created Forth (1970) for radio telescope control — the smallest complete programming system ever: language, interpreter, compiler, and OS in a few KB.\n\nLater designed stack machines (NC4000) and chips he programmed in Forth; 'Chuck Moore's creed' is minimalism as religion.

Sources

  1. colorforth.com/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_H._Moore