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Charles H. Moore

Personal blog · colorforth.comprogrammingsystems

Charles H. Moore's personal blog at colorforth.com covers programming and systems. Since 2007, 48 different Hacker News readers have linked it 69 times, most often “Chuck Moore's personal web site.”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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69mentions?
48HN people?
2007–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 14 in 2015

Most-linked posts?

  1. Chuck Moore's personal web site.
    6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2009-03-26
  2. Programming a problem-oriented language by Chuck Moore
    6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2011-02-09
  3. /cf.htm
    6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2011-10-19
  4. Chuck Moore: The Invention of Forth
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2011-12-31
  5. Chuck Moore (Inventor of the language FORTH)'s blog
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2009-08-15
  6. /vlsi.html
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2007-07-28
  7. Complete IDE Disk Driver in Forth
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-01-20
  8. Haypress Creek supercomputer: 360 cores running at 700 Mips
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-07-18
  9. 1% the Code (2001)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-08-31
  10. Forth enthusiast Jeff Fox passed away
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-05-05

What Hacker News says?

  1. mietek · 2013-07-31
    > I'm pretty excited about the array of parallel processors in the presentation though. If we had that, with package-on-package memory for each one, message passing would be the obvious way to do everything. Chuck Moore, the inventor of Forth, is working on these processors. http://www.greenarraychips.com/home/products/index.html It hasn't been an easy road. http://colorforth.com/blog.htm

    Comment linking /blog.htm

    on “The Future of Programming”
  2. mr_tyzic · 2015-12-20

    Submitted 1% the Code (2001) as a story · 143 points

    HN discussion
  3. e12e · 2013-06-17
    It's interesting to see how this fits with Chuck Moore's idea of miniature Forth computers: http://www.greenarraychips.com/home/products/index.html While not equivalent to FPGAs it does seem like a natural direction if what is desired is similar performance, but with more higher level tooling. That eval board/chip is for instance able to drive VGA using parts of the resources, leaving the rest for other stuff: http:…

    Comment linking /video.htm

    on “How FPGAs work, and why you'll buy one”
  4. llambda · 2013-07-25

    Submitted Chuck Moore: The Invention of Forth as a story · 106 points

    HN discussion
  5. frou_dh · 2017-11-01
    Is Moore okay? His charming homepage ( http://www.colorforth.com/ ) has been down for a while now.

    Comment linking /

    on “Chuck Moore, Extreme Programmer”
  6. vmorgulis · 2015-08-31

    Submitted Forth – The Early Years (1991) as a story · 98 points

    HN discussion
  7. e12e · 2015-11-09
    The two examples I can think of is ColorForth[1] (not sure what the representation is there, or how/if one would couple it with a (D)VCS), and of course Smalltak with it's DVCS Monticello: http://news.squeak.org/2008/08/15/all-new-monticello-2/ I had no idea there was such a new rewrite (2008), but then I keep forgetting that DVCS are rather new (as in popular, free-software DVCS are pretty new - git is just over 10…

    Comment linking /cf.htm

    on “EditorConfig”
  8. gruseom · 2012-04-05

    Submitted Chuck Moore on push-down stacks as a story · 68 points

    HN discussion
  9. spc476 · 2015-01-30
    Then there's Color Forth, where color is used as syntax ( http://www.colorforth.com/cf.htm ).

    Comment linking /cf.htm

    on “A Computer Scientist Tells Mathematicians How to Write Proofs”
  10. _qc3o · 2014-09-30

    Submitted Programming a Problem-Oriented Language (1970) as a story · 51 points

    HN discussion
  11. e12e · 2014-04-06
    Came here to mention Moore, and especially color forth (a forth system that uses colors to distinguish semantic meaning between variables and verbs/command words etc). His eval blog of the new greenarray boards is full of magnificent hackery, eg: http://www.colorforth.com/video.htm

    Comment linking /video.htm

    on “Ask HN: Any hackers over 60? 70?”
  12. wkoszek · 2016-04-14

    Submitted Thoughts about Pi as a story · 36 points

    HN discussion
  13. Jach · 2011-05-29
    http://colorforth.com/blog.htm "Here's GreenArrays' latest receipt of GA144 chips: 12 wafers; 14561 chips; 2,096,784 computers. And the fun is just beginning."

    Comment linking /blog.htm

    on “The brain's 5-million core, 9 Hz computer”
  14. plinkplonk · 2009-08-15

    Submitted Chuck Moore (Inventor of the language FORTH)'s blog as a story · 32 points

    HN discussion
  15. beagle3 · 2013-11-05
    He did design the physical chip, gates and all. He wrote the design software himself (supposedly, 500 lines of forth called OKAD). He uses a simpler model that is accurate enough for the process he is using. http://www.colorforth.com/vlsi.html Everything he does is fascinating, but don't expect any of it to be useful unless you are, in fact, Chuck Moore (perhaps Chuck Norris also gets a pass...)

    Comment linking /vlsi.html

    on “Chuck Moore's Creations”
  16. kyleburton · 2010-01-20

    Submitted Complete IDE Disk Driver in Forth as a story · 26 points

    HN discussion
  17. Erwin · 2013-03-05
    There's this esoteric programming language: http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html where the source code are images similar to works of Piet Mondrian. And there's ColorForth where the colors replace some of the punctuation normally used in Forth: http://www.colorforth.com/cf.htm -- this (seems?) more serious.

    Comment linking /cf.htm

    on “Real pixel coding (2011)”
  18. pietrofmaggi · 2011-09-08

    Submitted Chuck Moore: Programming a Problem-Oriented Language as a story · 25 points

    HN discussion
  19. ChuckMcM · 2013-08-01
    I got to talk with Ivan after he gave an earlier version of this talk at Asilomar and the good news was he's the real deal, pretty much every question I could think to throw at him he had a solid answer for, the bad news was I felt the same way about the Mill architecture as I did about Intel's iapx432 architecture [1], which was elegant to a fault. That said, I got the sense that this was what Intel was going for w…

    Comment linking /S40.htm

    on “The Belt CPU Architecture”
  20. krf · 2011-05-05

    Submitted Forth enthusiast Jeff Fox passed away as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  21. Someone · 2015-04-27
    Talking of alternative-world: I think anything by Chuck Moore falls in its own world ( http://www.colorforth.com ). He even wrote an (unpublished) book about programming with as third basic principle "Do It Yourself!" (Aka "Invent The Wheel!"; http://www.colorforth.com/POL.htm ). That alone moves it into its own universe. If you don't think so, read on to "Make variables as GLOBAL as possible. Why not? You can save…

    Comment linking /POL.htm

    on “Six works of Computer Science-Fiction”
  22. epall · 2009-07-18

    Submitted Haypress Creek supercomputer: 360 cores running at 700 Mips as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  23. Adlai · 2015-09-08
    Forth is as high-level as you'd like it to be. http://www.colorforth.com/POL.htm

    Comment linking /POL.htm

    on “Lisp is still a secret weapon”
  24. gruseom · 2012-06-28

    Submitted Chuck Moore: The Map is Not the Territory as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  25. cbd1984 · 2014-11-15
    To be fair, Moore originally wanted the language to be called "Fourth": > The file holding the interpreter was labeled FORTH, for 4th (next) generation software - but the operating system restricted file names to 5 characters. http://www.colorforth.com/HOPL.html It was the OS for the IBM 1130: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1130 Because it was the cheapest computer IBM had at the time, it got used by a lot of youn…

    Comment linking /HOPL.html

    on “RTX2010 – Radiation-hardened stack machine microprocessor”
  26. fogus · 2011-02-09

    Submitted Programming a problem-oriented language by Chuck Moore as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  27. e12e · 2015-04-14
    It's an interesting chip. You can implement a SRAM interface[1] using a few cores. And also generate a VGA signal[2]. Or run 10base 10 ethernet[e]. It's probably better to compare it with a FPGA that allows for rapid programming, than a multicore computer. Only you can sort of configure the whole thing as a SOC. Which has great power management. I'd love to see some updates from Greenarrays -- there hasn't been much…

    Comment linking /haypress.htm

    on “The J1 Forth CPU”
  28. jacquesm · 2009-08-24

    Submitted Chuck Moore's Wonderful colorForth Programming Language and Operating System as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  29. i336_ · 2015-12-22
    > The real art to web dev consulting is being able to build a flexible enough design to withstand these sorts of changes and still remain elegant and well thought out. This is where it gets tough. I happen to have http://www.colorforth.com/POL.htm [1] open, a portion of which illustrates the other side of this fence (emphasis mine): > Do not put code in your program that * might * be used. Do not leave hooks on whic…

    Comment linking /blog.htm

    on “1% the Code (2001)”
  30. imr · 2011-02-09

    Submitted Programming a Problem-Oriented-Language by Charles H. Moore as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion

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