Chuck Moore is pretty much the Buckminster Fuller of computing. Fuller's Dymaxion brand was associated with his idea of getting maximum utility out of minimum i

Chuck Moore is pretty much the Buckminster Fuller of computing. Fuller's Dymaxion brand was associated with his idea of getting maximum utility out of minimum input (material, energy, etc.) and Forth's "energy" is much the same. Minimum runtime, minimum code, minimum CPU complexity, but combinatorially explosive power out of these things. You need to realign your brain to think in these terms -- how do I simplify my code further and make it do more? -- but people who have done this can do amazing things. (Alan Kay is the Willy Wonka of computing; one can restate Joe Armstrong's banana-gorilla-jungle problem more whimsically: with Smalltalk you go into the shop to buy a candy bar but end up getting the whole chocolate factory, with everything you need to make every kind of confection staffed by Oompa-Loompas and ready to go.)