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Re:What about K? by Thorrez on Monday February 10, 2025 @09:57AM (#43001016)
A one-liner in k tends to be equivalent to a much larger program in another language.

Here's a program in k. I'm not sure exactly what it does. I think it might be a json encoder/decoder:

https://github.com/KxSystems/kdb/blob/master/e/json.k

Re:What about K? by saghm on Monday February 10, 2025 @11:58AM (#43002427)
It says a lot that the name of the file for is more informative about what the code does than the entirety of the file itself. "Readability is a property of the reader" indeed, but also the writer...
Re:What about K? by bregma on Monday February 10, 2025 @10:48AM (#43001616)
Dialup modems on a bad connection used to generate more readable code.
Re:What about K? by cubefox on Monday February 10, 2025 @10:33AM (#43001466)
It appears you accidentally linked to log where someone fell on his keyboard.
Re:What about K? by andai on Monday February 10, 2025 @11:28AM (#43002089)
I think Whitney's greatest achievement isn't even any of his languages—though they are very impressive—but that he convinced banks to pay him millions of dollars to write IOCCC style code!