My ` goal is a minimal path from the ` silicon end of the programming spectrum to the ` conceptual expression end . On the ` hardware end Forth-like and even more minimal languages presented here anchor transparently that physical foundation .
( I like the notion of single character names for the essential instruction set . I've adopted ` $ as an alias for ` swap , equivalent to the far more complex ` commute , ? , in APL , following a notion here . )

But on the other end , I Need a conceptually succinct and ` minimal notation to simply tell my machine(s) how to and what to do from my first timestamp in the morning for all the quotidian tasks must do , eg: accounting , or seek to do , eg: making a voxel model of planetary physics .

For the latter , one inevitably makes general structures which may be far from optimal for some specific task , algorithm . For instance , all ` objects in CoSy simply have a 3 cell header :
    `( Type Count ReferenceCount )` .

That permits the factoring of looping into a handful of ` adverbs , in APL : ` operators , which turn often complex idiosyncratic loops into single words taking the address of 1 or 2 lists and a verb to be applied to their items according to simple rules . A Y applying a verb to 2 nouns is generic .

A list is the simplest ` object structure upon all more complex can be built . This essentially adds ` plurals to the language , and plurals are generic .
At the ` Forth level one defines how to ` do a single instance ; the adverbs , how to apply it to entire collections .

But the total openness is essential so that time critical cases , or mapping to various architectures or collections of processors can be optimized as needed . No other APL level language has this transparency and malleability .
So there are these 2 poles to simplicity and minimality .

For me the challenge is constructing a transparent minimal path between them .
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Incidentally I find stack manipulations can be as confusing as others do . So I fleshed out a ` picture vocabulary of operations such as
 : --abba 2dup swap ;
to minimize my mental effort : http://cosy.com/4thCoSy/Code/CoSy/AltStackOps.f

I appreciate the openness of this ( Minimalist Computing ) group to this ` macro perspective on ` minimality in addition to the central focus on such things as gate counts and single bit adders which I wish I had more time and mind to dive into .

NB: The CoSy word , non-blank string , left tick , ` , returns the word after it as a string . I find it useful in ordinary text like this to single out the next word to be taken per se .

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Following up the simple factoring of the year numbers 2021 and 2022 example at the top of Wed.Dec,20211229 , I added the computing of the complementary factors in a New Year's note to SV-FIG : Factoring_in_a_CoSy_NewYear
I made what I intended to be a couple of minute video working thru the line word by word -- something I want to do on more simple examples to get across fundamentals of CoSy .  It ended up going on about 16 unedited rather train of thought minutes , not the succinct quick explanation of a singe line I planned .
But the other purpose was to test direct streaming from my  PowWeb hosted site . It's not to bad if given time to buffer to start :  http://www.cosy.com/CoSy/y21/video1996528978.mp4 .  ( It was just an experiment . I welcome feedback on whether the slow pace may actually help .)
YouTube , et al , are becoming obsolescent will become obsolescent  as hosting by sovereign webspaces as are planed for CoSy mature .

The Heartland Institute will distribute 100,000 Climate At A Glance (CAAG) booklets to professors and schoolteachers throughout the country.

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Science and Environmental Policy Project § Climate Change Battle Royale

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http://cosy.com/y22/Blog60days.html