October SVFIG ZOOM Meeting --- Fourth Saturday!

go to: forth.org/zoom
for the SVFIG Zoom Meeting
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===== COMING NEXT MONTH --- FORTH DAY --- 15NOV2025 --- SPEAKERS NEEDED!!
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**The Zoom Room is open 24-7, stop by and give it a try!
**If Forth.org is down, you can go to the Zoom room via this direct link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89716879946?pwd=Umx2WlNqU0pjbFplb3M1YS81WUU4dz09
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There will be NO IN-PERSON meeting at Stanford! Zoom only!
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*** PLEASE NOTE 09:30 AM (Pacific Daylight Time) START TIME
*** ONE HOUR DIFFERENCE FROM PACIFIC STANDARD TIME.
***All duration and descriptions are approximate or perhaps entirely inconsistent with what will eventually transpire.
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# AGENDA
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Festive Starting of the Recorder
There will be a brief joyful interlude to mark the beginning of the monthly recording of the Zoom session. Recordings will be posted to the SVFIG YouTube channel!
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Announcements
Speakers and suggestions welcome for Forth Day in November!
Anybody heard from Dennis Ruffer?
Ting's stuff, storage books, what to do with old computers?
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An Introduction To Win32Forth Object Oriented Programming --- Bill Ragsdale
“We'll explore how Object Oriented Programming is a hugely functional expansion on Charles Moore's CREATE DOES>”
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Screen Shot --- Everyone
We'll pause to record the roster for posterity. If you're on the lam, turn off your camera or log out for two minutes. Remember that the whole meeting is recorded for YouTube.
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The Roles of Forth in Blockchain Technologies and Beyond --- Liang Ng
“We 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. “
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Forth Haiku Update --- Brad Nelson
Periodically, the Program Chair coerces Brad into giving us a look at the latest Forth Haiku at the Forth Haiku Saloon … https://forthsalon.appspot.com/
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Command-Line Tooling in Forth –- Samuel 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.
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A Tale of Two Topics --- Bob Armstrong
>>>" You could write Notion in CoSy but you couldn't write CoSy in Notion "
( CoSy uniquely spans from the ` chip to the ` math in open Forth.
Notion evolves from a SmallTalk foundation , )
>>> “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 )
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Random Access, Round Table, Replays, Ad Hoc
What was your first Forth? On what platform?
Trade shows, public outreach.
Elevator pitch for Forth / printing a bookmark list of resources?
Meeting locations from history, Chabot, ABI, Dyson Wedge, Cogswell, …? We need a list!
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ADJOURNMENT
The recording will be stopped without festivities. Good fellowship and conversation can continue in our tastefully furnished Zoom Room.
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Coming Next Month:
FORTH DAY!
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Message Kevin Appert for more info! Send messages through Meetup-message, email, etc.
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Zoom meetings are recorded and presented on our YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/c/SiliconValleyForthInterestGroup
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