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On Thu, 2006-26-01 at 22:13 +1100, Michael Abbott wrote:
> If you want a language with symbols everywhere you can always go Perl ;).
Bah! K is where it's at for write-only code....
http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2002/11/14/22741/791
For a comment that exactly explains why I won't be using K ever, peer at
http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2002/11/14/22741/791/111#111
If you don't want to look at the site (it can be a bit brain-damaging),
here's a small example of K in action. This one tests for primality.
isprime:{&/x!/:2_!x}
In its favour is brevity. K programs are astonishingly small. Hence
the K style of just rewriting a program if you can't figure it out from
reading it.
I am not making this up.
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