Charles H. Moore – PROGRAMMING a PROBLEM-ORIENTED-LANGUAGE [~1970]

Just the goal:

My goal has been to decrease the effort required and increase the quality produced.

and the Basic Principles:

  * Keep it Simple
  * Do Not Speculate!
  * Do It Yourself!

Are worth a read.

The work of C.Moore around Forth/Stack Machines and overall, doing more with less, as always amazed me!