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Re:K Programming Language by dotnwat on Saturday September 11, 2021 @03:21PM (#28495009)
What does "k4 is proprietary" mean? Does that mean one way run into problems building an open-source implementation of the language itself?
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Re:K Programming Language by maximus-decimus on Saturday September 11, 2021 @08:28PM (#28497464)
It's written by a private company with no public docs and no public implementation. Hell, it's not even directly sold, since it's just used as the backend for Q.

I have heard of people getting into legal problems for making a Q clone but not for k3/k6 implementations, so I don't know where they draw the line there.

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Re:K Programming Language by opencl on Saturday September 11, 2021 @09:06PM (#28497657)
There are some a few public docs.

https://estradajke.github.io/k9-simples/

https://code.kx.com/q/learn/

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