Subject:
Thanks for a very Retail perspective
From:
Bob Armstrong <bob@cosy.com>
Date:
2025-10-03, 16:33
To:
Max Cupp <max@exponentialimpact.com>
CC:
Marcial Dumlao <impact@primempactconsulting.com>, Jenna Price <jenna@jennaprice.co>, Amanda Graham <pcprogrammer@gmail.com>, Dave Thomas <info@davethomas.net>, Devon McCormick <devon@acm.org>, Brad Nelson <bnels123@gmail.com>, Vance Brown <vancebrown@thrivers.com>
BCC:
Karthik Krishna <kkrish0@icloud.com>

Max ,

I'm getting out a further note soon with a significantly updated NL2025_09 reflecting insights from conversations this week . But for the nonce :

Your noticing the misspelling of ` Beginning at the top of CoSy.com/CoSy/ after all these years , and the ` amateurishness it conveys , and the similar observation of not trusting anything not in an ` official ` app store are well taken .

Getting that ` Polish ( Musk clip ) and the marketing to be a recognized app , I can start seeing how Evernote can consume > $250,000,000 start up . Notion ( to which Jenna msgd me a Spotify interview with founder Ivan Zhao ) , with private funding , now has revenues of $400e6 at a $100 annual subscription  .

I tend to consider the teky programming cost , given CoSy's unmatchable malleability , and its hard to imagine a tenth that cost in CoSy teky time . I recently commented on Linked-In on a comment mentioning " 11,000 lines of code " for something . that all of CoSy is about 
  `( sys CoSySource )` Dv@ { F> lfVM dae # } 'm ,/ +/ |>| 10237 
~ 10200 lines from the x86 instructions defining about
  Allwords #  |>| 2448 
words creating and dealing with CoSy's dynamic trees & leafs at all levels from chip to math , and everyday tasks .

So , it has to be recognized that CoSy ultimately takes on the entire main stream professional programming language paradigm . I touch on this in my August SV-FIG presentation : Breaking Paradigms is Hard to Do . 

The issue of having a particular application at which a product excels versus simply being very good across the spectrum of tasks which compose the everyday business of life has been discuss , most notably with Dave & Amanda . I cited the multidimensional geometry of the situation in a different context in my Rational Ignorance and the Stupidity of the Centralized State from my Manhattan Libertarian days . Perhaps the best way to look at the ` purpose of CoSy is to total personal productivity .
But that very much includes understanding things . It is to artificially aid my effective intelligence .

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I fixed the spelling of beginning in CoSy.com/CoSy/ using the following CoSy lines :
  ` https://www.cosy.com/CoSy/index.html >Fn> wwwGet >Ft>
Retrieve file from Web using cURL I learned of from John Peter's  SV-FIG Zoom : Forth/CoSy for Day Trading Alerts , altho he didn't really use CoSy very deeply .
 rShow Ft rUpdate       | Open large editing window and post the HTML code 
Find & correct the spelling of " beginning " ( & a few other cleanups while I'm at it ) .
  rGet >Ft>   ` C:\CoSyWeb\CoSy\index.html >F
Retrieve the edited text , save it , and write it to the local file .
 `( C:/CoSyWeb/ ftp://FTP.cosy.com/htdocs/ )` ` C:\CoSyBob\BobA.csy F>/\ ` FTPword v@ cL  >t1 
Set the local and web directories , and the password required for uploading retrieved from my personal BobA Job in a variable , t1 .

I'm only now using these defs for the first time , and there was a problem cured by adding a final L@ cL  to the definition . 
: wwwPut 2p s" cURL -T " R@ dsc L@ cL cL s"  -u " cL R@ 2 _at cL "bl cL R@ 1th cL L@ cL 2P> ; 
wwwPut turns the local file name into the instruction needed to upload it :
  ` CoSy\index.html t1 wwwPut
returns ( puts on the stack ) the string :
cURL -T C:/CoSyWeb/CoSy\index.html -u BobA:PWpwPW ftp://FTP.cosy.com/htdocs/CoSy\index.html
and finally  Shell  uses the line to upload the corrected script to CoSy.com/CoSy .
  ` CoSy\index.html t1 wwwPut Shell
Yes that's super-teky , but it's a total of 5 lines which can be sitting in your notes . And if you have a teky friend , they can sent them to you in a tweet .  
( This highlights the truth that the significant task is nucleating a language community . )

Now that I seem to have wwwGet and wwwPut tamed , I can easily write a few lines to check the synchronization of local directories , or local and web directories . I don't need some other app for the task , or try to figure out where the hell Windows has the facility , which I'm sure it does .

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By the time you've gone off to a traditional programming editor to start editing a program , much can be written in a line and executed right in your work where it's needed , while whatever program you've written is still off somewhere to use somehow .

I made a comment on a Linked-In post by Yann LeCun " VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta " of an example of Python .  CoSy's half the bytes . But more consequentially the definition is immediately added to your vocabulary to express things you need to do .

Interestingly , I found it easier to search my WorkLog notes for ` Yann than find the post searching on Linked-in .

Wish I could be briefer , but as I said in August's SV-FIG Breaking Paradigms is Hard to Do eliminating the verbosity and boilerplate and the separation of ` professional programming from simply being part of the flow of daily work where individuals are their own programmers of first resort , is a shift in paradigm complementary to AI . It must be recognized , that being open code from the hardware to the level of everyday utility CoSy is orthogonal to any particular ` operating system , altho it is currently interfaced to just WinTel . The implications of that are left to after the first $200e6 .

Bob A      αlphas . NL2025_8Breaking Paradigms . #CoSyAnyDay . NL202503 - polish . Tekydome . Daily Blog

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