Doug's message brings to mind Chuck Moore, the creator of Forth, who is probably as fierce a "negative" coder as anyone has ever seen, and he extended his appro

Doug's message brings to mind Chuck Moore, the creator of Forth, who is probably as fierce a "negative" coder as anyone has ever seen, and he extended his approach similarly to his stack-based hardware. Sadly, Forth (in any guise/implementation) has been largely written off by the world, and is probably better considered a divergence in evolution from today's computing trends. But I think the lessons it teaches remain relevant today--its minimalism, similarly "born of a taste for achieving big power by small means rather than by unbounded accumulation of facilities", is breathtaking, even if Forth is no longer quite practical to use in many of today's software/hardware ecosystems.