davidw, I was at the event too. I think it went pretty well.

I get the feeling though, that Chuck Moore is more a novelty among the Forth community than a respected influential figure.

This is unfortunate since what he is doing is really the main stream of Forth. I don't see anyone pursuring the principles of Forth as vigorously as he has been doing. It hard for me to imagine of all people, Forth enthusiasts being the closed minded ones...

I found the discussion of Forth ML interesting. Actually, I have plans for a colorForth web broswer too. Perhaps there will be some collaboration in the future. Chuck has said on the colorForth mailing list that he will release his networking code at his next website update, this should be interesting. I've been working on a jpeg decoder, so this will hopefully complete another part of the puzzle.