Febuary 2019 Meeting Notes
Compiled by Dave Jaffe
Contributions from Kevin Appert and others
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Videos: morning (0:55:25) -
afternoon (3:05:24) |
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08:00 |
Breakfast
We met up at the
Starbucks in the
Tresidder Union on campus |
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10:00 |
Coffee and a Chat |
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10:30 |
Genealogy in Forth - CH Ting
“I Chronicles
1-9 is one of the most uninteresting passages in the Bible. It contains the
names of about a thousand people and their genealogical relationships. I saw in
it a Forth program, describing a relational database. In this presentation I
will describe how to compile the genealogy database and how to query its
information. This will be a trilingual presentation in Forth, English, and
Chinese.”
- Slides - 751 Kb pdf file
- Mathematics Genealogy Project -
Robert Fones
Williams -
David A.
Smith
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11:30 |
Lunch
We enjoyed lunch at
The Treehouse. |
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13:08 |
ESP32 SDMMC Interface - Dennis Ruffer
Dennis presented
briefly on a setting up an SD card on an ESP32 chip on a FireBeetle. Check out
the information on his
blog.
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13:15 |
Forth thru a Lisp-y Lens - Brad Nelson
“For over
two decades, Abelson and Sussman's seminal work, "Structure and Interpretation
of Computer Programs", served as the text for MIT's introductory computer
science course. It uses Lisp / Scheme as a vehicle to explore programming in
general, and explains this choice of language by proposing that a powerful
programming language should serve as solid framework in which to organize
ideas. Together we'll hold Forth up to that lens and explore how well several
of the ideas and examples from the book work when expressed in Forth.”
- Structure
and Interpretation of Computer Programs
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14:15 |
Break for Cake - Celebrating Sam Falvo's
Birthday |
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14:38 |
gelForth place & route by hyperstatic scope -
Andreas Wagner
Andreas described a new dictionary-based place &
route scheme for the PSoC 5LP fabric that uses Forth's
hyperstatic-scope/word-redefinitions to shadow inaccessible routes and expose
accessible routes locally throughout the source code.
- Hyper Static Global
Environment
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14:55 |
Ascetic Programming: the pre-10th Anniversary Edition -
Samuel A. Falvo II
“It's hard to believe that it's been 9 years
since Ascetic Programming appeared as a relatively minor programming pattern in
an obscure slide deck back in 2010. Since then, it and its cousin
Declarative-Inquisitive-then-Imperative, has all but redefined how I write
software in Forth. But, what actually is Ascetic Programming? What does it look
like? How easy is it to work with? I will provide answers to these questions
and more as I embark on a deep-dive on these and related patterns.”
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16:00 |
Clean Up and Adjourn |
Other items:
- Forth
- Forth for Linux x86_32
and ARM Thumb2 - Mark Manning
- Forth for MSP430
- Forth Tutorials
- Forth CPUs
- Forth Articles and Blogs
- Forth Programming Books
- Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer
- Other Jobs
- Green
Arrays
- Forth People
- Products in Forth
- Misc Forth Stuff
- Computers
- Why
are 8-bit 8051 MCUs still in use?
- Chips
- Components
- Software Applications
- Space Applications
- Programming Languages other than Forth
- Operating Systems
- Utilities
- Hardware
- Other Books
- Manuals & Documentation
- Articles
- Applications
- Stores
- Robots
- Games
- Space Invaders
Synthesizer
- Another Sudoku solver
in APL and one in Forth (video 14:41)
- Forth Chess (video
18:22)
- Companies
- Lectures
- People
- Surplus Houses
- Meetings
- Videos
- Courses
- Trade Shows
- Podcasts
- Personal Computer History
- Retro Computing
- Tutorials
- Education
- Contests
- Blogs
- Other
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