> In 1983 Chuck founded Novix, a company whose goal was to design a processor that was optimal for use with FORTH, a true stack processor.<p>C started as a language that was designed to take advantage of an existing processor to produce fast code. That has worked spectacularly.<p>It seems, however, going the other way by first designing a language and then making a processor to make it fast does not work out. Other examples are the Lisp Machines and Java Processors.