It's 2001 , It's a new world
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Thanks , -- Bob A
CoSy2000
Parent : CoSy/NoteComputer
| Now Uploaded :
CoSy2000 .
( including a vocabulary to talk to a K Language process . )
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CoSy is ancient by common software standards , essentially written in 1984 .
But , many of its concepts and features , like those of APL itself ,
remain unrecognized and unmatched in the mass market .
For instance , CoSy has been an open-code , windowed , Hypertext Browser of
its own objects ( Jobs ) since it was created , long before many of those
terms were current .
So far as I know , CoSy`s ability to mix interPeople text with scratch pad ,
or more structured computations remains unique . For instance :
1 + 2 3 4 |>| 3 4 5 | tapping sF5 on this line .
Users new to APL will find more than a thousand functions in , generally
pretty concise , APL . Unfortunately , in periods of limited memory , the
documentation on many of the classics has been separated , remaining only
on archive files .
Even experienced APLers are likely to find some provocative linguistic
concepts , such as the Text ( F2 & sF3 ) and S stacks and
vocabulary : p , D , P , T . ( Put the cursor on these words and choose
s SSHOW SHOW RW | on the cF10 menu to
see definitions . )
Anyone who knows APL well , and digs into the structure of CoSy
will see ways in which the functionality of CoSy could be drastically
upgraded and extended with with a comparatively small amount of
experimentation .
The much greater speed of processors now would permit massive restructuring
and generalization - even a whole keystroke table redefinition .
The interface with Arthur Whitney`s K , ( see WRK:K ) provides access
to another very powerful array language .
( put the cursor on -> WRK:K <- and tap cF6 to go to that material . )
The link with K is pretty reliable and quick enough for what I`ve tried so
far not to annoy me . However , it seems CoSy can get into some sort of lock
with a K process , and I haven`t caught what triggers the state . It may
be inscrutable MS/Win98 .
But the K`s interface is so primitive that CoSy represents a great
improvement .
The choice of interface seems to be between EMACS/Lisp and CoSy/APL .
The Documentation , and some math , etc , libraries for the Flat APL
provided here is available from APL2000 . Say Hi to Eric Baelen .
Post all questions and comments to CoSy-NoteComputing .
See Xfer991207 for Font setup and some tek examples .
#download
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I`ve uploaded a self extracting 625k file , CoSy2000.exe , to the
eGroups vault http://www.egroups.com/docvault/cosy-notecomputing/ .
It should expand to a directory named \CoSy containing the files
below :
APL EXE 178,463 01-11-93 9:36a APL.EXE
APL8514 FON 14,336 05-21-92 9:15a APL8514.FON
BK BAT 62 02-08-93 11:28p bk.bat
CAL2000 ASF 32,768 12-09-99 6:56p CAL2000.ASF
COSY BAT 267 12-07-99 11:46p cosy.bat
COSY PIF 967 12-16-99 10:37a cosy.PIF
FONTREAD ME 4,456 09-23-92 5:34p FONTREAD.ME
HELP ASF 425,984 12-08-99 10:55a help.asf
SAVEBK BAT 65 01-08-93 5:13p savebk.bat
TOK K 3,408 11-24-99 4:09p TOK.K
WAPLFONT FON 53,248 11-20-92 10:07a WAPLFONT.FON
XFER ASF 200,704 12-09-99 6:56p XFER.ASF
Clicking cosy.pif should load and start CoSy .
Please post to the group any problems or comments .
K.CoSy NoteComputing Environment
Rapid Econometric Modeling
