[dewster]

Is there some level of art in CS and processor design? Yes, because there is no one clearly "right" answer to larger problems. CM speaks eloquently, and presses a lot of my buttons (i.e. I agree with him) regarding what is "wrong" with how the industry approaches computing. But he then goes on to so strongly advocate for his own stuff that he makes it sound like a panacea for all computing ills. He comes across as an underdog with the solution to everything that the world is unjustly ignoring, which is a little weird IMO. He would make a great counter-culture guru.

I wanted to love Forth, but it's a cumbersome tiny language tied to a couple of stacks that you have to micro manage. DUP, DROP, SWAP, etc. are inefficient, much like copying a value from one register to another, which is why most modern processors are 3 operand (to include the copy/move in the operation). And running a stack-based language like Forth on a register-based processor is a poor fit and inefficient, but that isn't necessarily a reason to build custom hardware that fits the language (we don't really do that anymore). This Emperor has no clothes.

Cue the true believers.