alt Hacker NewsArticle is lame in multiple ways, and also eForth was written by Bill Muench. Dr Ting adopted Muench's version to use assembly language bootstrapping instead of metacompilation. Bootstrapping is possibly easier for beginners to understand, but metacompilation is part of Forth's fiendish cleverness and it's a shame for an aficionado to miss out on it.
Oh, I'll have to correct this! I've only seen eForth mentioned with Dr Ting's name all over. Thank you.
The metacompilation part is really nice. Did the self-modification section of the essay not convey that to you? Because that's what it was :s I'll have to revise it.
I really want this essay to be definitive, so even after 4 revisions there is still some way to go. All the comments have been extremely helpful to further reach that goal :)