Cosy Language

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Re: [svfig] Gagged on Git I happened to have an email exchange with an APL friend of decades , Ray Cannon , which I copied to the SV-FIG mail group . It caused some stir illustrating the discontinuity in personal efficiency between GitHub , where tekys post code , and CoSy's use of its language on simple directories . Sam Falvo , who gave an excellent SV-FIG talk on CoSy internals ( annotated ) , particularly the recursive reference counting memory management which evolves directly from Arthur Whitney , felt I was dissing tekys . Here are the emails , more or less in sequence . On 15/03/2026 15:50, Bob Armstrong wrote: | cc: SV-FIG Ray , Saw your comment on the Dyalog APL forum : I am NOT a Github user and have no real wish to start using it. William Wang of Electronic Design some years ago suggested I put CoSy on GitHub . So I did . But it's ridiculously complex and limited compared to simply having a list language and an open directory . A talk by John Peters at SV-FIG introduced me to cURL.se which has pretty universal Web IO so now I have some basic one-line wwwGet and wwwPut verbs , and of course with CoSy vocabulary it's far more flexible than Git could hope to be . Git is for tekys to remain tekys in their own teky fiefdom , not for the humans simply wanting to get their own sh-- done and not forgotten who are my target . The main links I now post are : Subject: Re: [svfig] Gagged on Git Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:32:07 -0700 From: Samuel Falvo II <sam.falvo@gmail.com> To: Silicon Valley Forth Interest Group <svfig@zork.net> CC: Ray Cannon <ray_cannon@compuserve.com>, Bob Armstrong <bob@cosy.com> On Sun, Mar 15, 2026 at 8:50 AM Bob Armstrong via svfig <svfig@zork.net> wrote: William Wang of Electronic Design some years ago suggested I put CoSy on GitHub . So I did . What was your purpose for doing so? | 20260325.1622 | It really was for marketing ; that's where the teky market meets . But it's ridiculously complex and limited compared to simply having a list l...