October 2025
Meeting Notes

Compiled by Dave Jaffe

Contributions from Kevin Appert and others


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09:30

Start of the Meeting - Kevin Appert, SVFIG Program Chairman

09:31

Announcements - Kevin Appert, SVFIG Program Chairman
Discussions included:

  • Kay Lack - Producer of YouTube Forth videos
  • Video (6:08)

09:36

An Introduction to Win32Forth Object Oriented Programming - Bill Ragsdale
“I'll explore how Object Oriented Programming is a hugely functional expansion on Charles Moore's CREATE DOES>”

Slides
Video (37:46)

10:15

Screenshot

10:16

The Roles of Forth in Blockchain Technologies and Beyond - Liang Ng
“I'll investigate the roles of Forth in Blockchain related technologies and novel decentralised schemes beyond Blockchain, with the potential of reinventing the Internet, but without the huge footprint required by Blockchain.“

10:54

Command-Line Tooling in Forth - Samuel A. Falvo II
“As with Unix Philosophy, conventional Forth tools hyper-focus on achieving a single task spectacularly well. However, a lot of the power of Unix comes from hidden sources of polymorphism. Using a simple file-copy operation as an example, I hope to illustrate how to accomplish a lot of the 'do what I mean' magic in Forth, without compromising Forth's ideals.“

11:36

A Tale of Two Topics - Bob Armstrong
“You could write Notion in CoSy but you couldn't write CoSy in Notion. It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures. (Alan Perlis : Epigrams in Programming #9)"

Video (26:50)

12:03

End of the Meeting

Future

Windows Shell Support in Win32Forth - Bill Ragsdale
Bill will examine the three levels of direct user's Forth interface to a Windows based PC.

Creole Forth and Picar-X, Part 2 - Joseph M. O'Connor
Joseph will continue his presentation of Creole Forth for Python which he used to develop commands for the Picar-X robotic car.

Smart Token System - Don Golding
Don will discuss a combination of Color Forth constructs: a packet like structure for the cell.

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.

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
Products in Forth
Misc Forth Stuff
The Ultimate Question ?? - Neil Bawd
ueforth
Computers
Components
Software Applications
Space Applications
Space stuff
Programming Languages other than 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
The Computer Journal
Retro Computing
The Internet Formed in the 1960s - How Did It Start?
Tutorials
Education
Contests
Blogs
Other
The First Color TV is Older Than You Think

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