October 2024
Meeting Notes
Compiled by Dave Jaffe
Contributions from Kevin Appert and others
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09:30 |
Start of Meeting & Announcements- Kevin
Appert, SVFIG Program Chairman
- Video (7:45)
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09:35 |
Memory of Ward Christensen- Dave Jaffe
Dave
reported the passing of Ward Christensen, co-developer of Computer Bulletin
Board Systems.
- Ward
Christensen - Wikipedia
- Ward
Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age
78
- Ward
Christensen, Early Visionary of Social Media, Dies at 78
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09:37 |
Forth with Small Silicon - Bill Ragsdale
"What
would be the most primitive words to implement in code for a minimal, low
performance Forth?"
- Video (46:35)
- Slides
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10:23 |
Screenshot |
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10:24 |
Getting CoSy with APL and K - Brad
Nelson
"Array languages, including APL and its descendants, offer one of
the few truly novel vantage points on computing."
"Known for exotic symbols and extremely terse programs, these
languages offer a way of writing programs free of loops that is amenable to
efficient parallel execution and high-level algebraic reasoning."
"I'll give a brief intro to APL and its history, gesture at K,
explore how Bob Armstrong's CoSy transliterates these concepts to a Forth
environment, and consider what lessons array languages have for the Forth
community."
- Video
(1:14:40)
- Slides
- Conway's Game of
Life in APL in Forth
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11:38 |
CoSy, an Everyday Human Level System Based in Forth, not
C - Bob Armstrong
A more generalized, and thus useful,
replacement for AHEAD and THEN that can be used to build S"-type strings,
convenient code callbacks, and/or closures, and other things which may involve
"quotations" of various kinds.
- Video (53:57)
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12:32 |
End of Meeting |
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Future |
Getting Started with arrayForth - Greg
Bailey
"I will present a video on the simple process of downloading,
installing, and using arrayForth 3"
Direction Finding - Andrew Korsak
Andy is
planning to present this application on Forth Day.
Building GUIs in Forth, without the Gunk - Xuyang
Chen
Fiji - Jack J. Woehr
Fiji
Fiji Language
The Game of
Bridgit - Bob Armstrong |
Other Items:
- 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
- James Bowman:
Developing with the Gameduino (video 27:39)
- Products in Forth
- Misc Forth Stuff
- Computers
- Components
- Software Applications
- Space Applications
- Space stuff
- Programming Languages other than Forth
- Seven
Obscure Languages in Seven Weeks (including: Mastering Stack-Based
Computing with Forth)
- Operating Systems
- Utilities
- Hardware
- Other Books and Magazines
- Manuals & Documentation
- Articles
- Applications
- Stores
- Robots
- Games
- Companies
- Lectures
- People
- Surplus Houses
- Meetings
- Courses
- Trade Shows
- Podcasts
- Personal Computer History
- Retro Computing
- Tutorials
- Education
- Contests
- Blogs
- Other
- The Incredible Story
Behind the First Transistor Radio
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