ShortCuts : CoSy/APL , Arthur Whitney`s K , Iverson`s J and Other APLs : , FORTH , HTML & Miscellaneous :

Early Comment : HUEMAN : For nons , just noet mie eforts toward universal fonetik speling ( tending toward Italian - Eestern Uroepyan noetaeshon ) . MACHINE : Certain computer languages are radically more powerful than the common ones used by the masses of programmers . I have been living in and co-evolving my CoSy NoteComputer based in one of these , APL , since 1984 . Some of the algorithms date back to the mid `70s when I learned A_Programming_Language to help understand the matrix algebra foundational to my pursuit of an understanding of psykofiziks . See CoSy/Views/PsychoPhysics

The CoSy/APL NoteComputer Environment has incorporated !/Job/Language/HyperText linking , like the web`s , as a natural thing to do since I moved to PCs in `84 , before I was aware of the term .

#CoSy/APL

• |991004,00:56| Ch 52 TLC : NORAD tracks 25484 objects in earth orbit . This is Jack Rudds` APL geometric DB .
• APL98/I,O,D CoSy : Ieri , Oggi e Domani ( Yesterday , Today & Tomorrow )
  Including : FreewareRevenueModel

• Language/LowDownObjects @ NY/SIGAPL : APLToT98 "APL as a Tool of Thought" #10 . Stevens Institute , Hoboken, NJ , SAT,980131

• Toward an Ultimate "NoteComputer" Presented at the 1994 Rochester FORTH conference ( .gif images of paper )

• CoSy/Language/Booleans and CoSy/Language/Booleans971222 discussions from comp.lang.apl and comp.lang.forth

• 1997 August 17-20 - Toronto . Presented : The Evolution of CoSy including CoSy/Lang/Hardware See also APL97 SURVIVORS PUB PARTY Tribute to Gerard Langlet . and uploaded APL97/Images & language/APL97.Notes

• !CoSy/Language/APL96 Images and Notes from APL96 , Lancaster England week of 960828 .

  #SELF
  

• \COSY\CAL96!/Job/CoSyGatheringų960204.Invite MidWinter FixPoint 960204 . Invitation to `96 MidWinter CoSyGathering . This invitation is a self-reproducing skript. |( 050201 | Such a script is called a Quine )| That is , I constructed vocabulary in CoSy.APL culminating in the word

   ' DO '  such that  |( |  skript match DO skript |>| 1  | )|
  

  with only the DDT time stamp at the bottom , of course , changing . I would be interested to know if such a thing is possible in Java .

• !CoSy/Language/ Comp.Lang.APL,960925 Subject: APL, 0 K? | My Post : About Universal language , Life in HTML ( a Programming Challenge ) , Consciousness .

• CoSy report on APL89 conference . Original CoSy text files containing CoSy print commands :
  • Conference Report : CoSy:Report89.8
  • Early CoSy Party Report : CoSy:Report89.8,Honor ' *** The antidote for dishonesty is disclosure *** '

• \COSY\COSY!/Job/BjarneStroustrup:C++,950919 Notes of a lecture by , and subsequent e-mail discussion with the creator of C++.
  Note the CoSy hypertext Job references in this piece .

• Language/APL_Inside comp.lang.apl posting by Bob Bernecky about the internal structure of APL .

• RaulMiller said he couldn`t duplicate this . Perhaps its been cured , perhaps I dreamed it :
  Note : There is a deadly bug in Netscape`s handling of comments delimited by <!-- and -->
  They don`t totally ignore < ( and > ? ) symbols between them .
  See implications for Programming Challenge in !CoSy/Language/ Comp.Lang.APL,960925 .

• AlanGraham : Zero . An evolute of APL NY/SigAPL:0 THU.DEC,971211 . NY SigAPL talk . Alan & I have surprizingly compatable views .

• NY-APL9905 EricBaelen : APL2000 ; FredWaid : OpenHere .

• NYSigAPL9810:PeterDonnelly New features in Dyalog APL/W

• NYSigAPL9809:DaveSiegel Namespaces in APL+Win

Developed thru years at Morgan Stanley and Union Bank of Switzerland in New York , It is finally available on the web .
• K User Group Meeting notes :
  • KUG:990225 : Two talks on K :
    1) Experiences of a VB / Excel User Learning K;
    2) Genetic Programming | Optimizing Fitness Fns over spaces of Tokens
  • Kx-FinEng TUE.DEC,981208
   

• http://www.kx.com/ ArthurWhitney `s language : K , which I consider to be the most conceptually advanced language in its abstraction of the essential structures of data and algorithms . The size of his fully working demo executable is just 128KB .
  His syntax , tho , has a number of idiosyncracies and , most egregiously does not allow creation of infix functions . Instead multiple arguments must be listed in ' [ ; ; ; ] ' list notation .
  Thus | ( A f B ) g C h D | becomes | g[ f[ A ; B ] ; h[ C ; D ] ] | ( corrected 20070604 . was : | g [ f [ A ; B ] ; h [ C ; D ] ] | ) .
  Sorry , I don`t accept this step backward . ... Continued ...

• Impeachment Vote Analysis using K Language . Extracting 6 Honorable House Democrats from CSPAN Vote records .

• K Rules : bell-labs benchmark :

    Subject: bell-labs benchmark        Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 10:06:45 -0700
      From: "arthur whitney"                   To: 
  

  Re: Timing Trials, or, the Trials of Timing: Experiments with Scripting and User-Interface Languages
  Brian W. Kernighan & Christopher J. Van Wyk

  See : kx.com/a/kl/examples/bell.k ( Copied to : Language/K/BellExamples )

   k is faster (sum of times)
    k(32) perl(95) java(300) tcl(1400+)
  
   k is shorter (lines of code)
    k(9) awk(66) perl(96) tcl(105) scheme(170) vb(200) java(350)
  
   we really are different ...
   the benchmark is loops, text-processing and stdio.
            we do vectors, data-processing and mmap. 

• Older view : \COSY\COSY!/Job/ArthurWhitney`s:K An e-mail I picked up from comp.lang.apl archives .
  ( 960722 | Incidentally , I stayed in NYC THU.JUN,960620 to see Arthur give a demo of K at UBS . In a demonstration of disorganization unconscionable for a bank with global pretensions , the projector for the Sun hi-res monitor could not be found . Perhaps 2 out of the much - beyond - the - ordinary SigAPL crowd could see any of Arthur`s actual conversation with his machine . It makes it not worth my uploading my notes .
  To understand the value of this region of ComputerLinguistic space , note that UBS is the only user of ( and , in fact , thru `97 06 , has proprietary control of ) " K " . Apparently 4 individuals , most or all ex- MorganStanley , support K full time .
  Conclusion : UBS spends around %2 M $ on the language each year . )
  980105| Update : CoSy/Language/K License : $100k.
• See also cosy.com/views/APL94.txt for a glimpse at Arthur`s presentation in the party port Antwerp Belgum .

• Eric Iverson : J Language . NYPC C++ and Java SIG, IBM , 590 Mad @ 57 THU.APR,990408,18:30-21 .
• Ken Iverson`s J team won the Judge's Prize in the ICFP'98 Functional Programming Contest .
• APL and J Home Page These languages , along with FORTH are the major influences in my thoughts .

• Rex Swain has kept track of an amazing number of APLers and APL resources .
  His HTML Sampler is excellent .

• APL Books EdShaw`s Renaissance Data Systems .

#FORTH
FORTH , the minimal extensible language is the one language I`ve met since learning APL with substantial ' philosophical ' import .

The FORTH I am using for Ultimate CoSy is Ron Aaron's open Reva

• UltraTechnology History of UltraTechnology , Computer Cowboys , iTV Corp , Offete Enterprises , and evolution of Forth hardware and software ; includes videos of Chuck Moore .
• Stephen Pelc's VFX_Forth perhaps the fastest FORTH , and my first choice ( I got a license ) for FORTH.CoSy , but less evolved for Windows than Win32Forth which was my second choice
• FORTH, Inc The evolute of Charles Moore's original company , run by Elizabeth Rather
• ANS FORTH Standard
  Particularly useful : F. Alphabetic list of words
• Letter to , TomZimmer , creator of Win32forth .
  • Jeff Kelm Win32 API Programming Examples using Win32For .
• An excellent example of what FORTH is capable of is a Memory Management Algorithm by Gordon Charlton .
• A 32 bit FORTH machine can be implemented with 35k transistors acording to the online book Stack Computers by Phil Koopman .
• ForthInterestGroup UK . Contains Build your own Forth with explaination of internals .

#Misc
Miscellaneous , HTML :

• 99 Bottles of Beer in 227 computer languages . ( Thanks to Carl Distefano , XyWriter . )
  The algorithm , while much more illuminating than "Hello World" , is still far too simple to differentiate deeper structural aspects of the languages ( altho many of the examples display the overhead required for those structures ) .
  Many other examples , perhaps out of boredom , elaborate or obfuscate the basic problem rendering them incommensurable . The APL2 example , for example , essentially creates all verses in parallel , and thus is a good example of APL's intrinsic parallelism , but is not the sequential algo intended .
  The K example is such a fugue I think it must have been written by Steve Apter .

• Linux
• LISP Paul Graham arc language
• POVray Extraordinary free "Persistence of Vision Raytracing" language . See POVRay Short Code Contest for some astounding < 256 byte image generators .
• No Stinking Loops Stevan Apter's heavy duty language site including
  Factorial Fn in Haskell Increasingly complex forms in a very flexible academic language . link from Steve on the Kdb list group 041008