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A comment on K (2005).

Re:K (2005) by jnordwick on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @09:35PM (#22061204)
> K stands for “keys to the kingdom”.

Lol. It's actually just the letter after J, since K was supposed to be the next in the APL-ish family.

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Re:K (2005) by tosh on Thursday January 16, 2020 @02:52PM (#22068191)
also: https://web.archive.org/web/20041024212043/http://www.kx.com...

> i call most of my languages A but to avoid confusion i switched to the phoenician aleph.

(h/t chrispsn)

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Re:K (2005) by rpz on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @09:41PM (#22061233)
Arthur wrote the article :)
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Re:K (2005) by jnordwick on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @10:40PM (#22061494)
Ha, I didn't notice that. But I've heard it before on the K list. I think it is more of a backronym than a serious statement. This is a guy who names his source files a.c, b.c, c.c, ..., z.c.

I'm unsure why Ken Iverson named the J language that though.

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Re:K (2005) by earenndil on Thursday January 16, 2020 @12:45AM (#22061988)
Probably because A through I were already taken.
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