Re:K Language (2011)
by Avshalom on Thursday March 12, 2020 @07:24PM
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>> Is it just the esoterics?
Kinda, yeah. It's more interesting--along some axes--than 'how we went from 100 customers to 101 customers' (which some how required a re-write in Java?)
But also I feel like a lot of people look at their C/Python/SQL/JS/HTML/CSS stacks and their thousand person company and hundred thousand lines of code that kind a sorta just directs people at a Stripe widget and think: We Clearly Are Doing Something Wrong.
Not that K/APL or Prolog or Smalltalk or whatever would actually magically make people do-the-right-thing or do-a-thing-better but they're sort of different worlds so they inspire a bit more wonder and reflection than 'how we moved from python to go to rust'
Kinda, yeah. It's more interesting--along some axes--than 'how we went from 100 customers to 101 customers' (which some how required a re-write in Java?)
But also I feel like a lot of people look at their C/Python/SQL/JS/HTML/CSS stacks and their thousand person company and hundred thousand lines of code that kind a sorta just directs people at a Stripe widget and think: We Clearly Are Doing Something Wrong.
Not that K/APL or Prolog or Smalltalk or whatever would actually magically make people do-the-right-thing or do-a-thing-better but they're sort of different worlds so they inspire a bit more wonder and reflection than 'how we moved from python to go to rust'