Re:K, by Arthur Whitney (2005)
by paddy_m on Saturday January 18, 2014 @01:24PM
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NumPy is an array oriented library/language too. Idiomatic NumPy usage is quite terse too. I can see how you can start with NumPy like syntax and then want something still more terse, but starting from K/Q seems quite hard.
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It's more than just terser notation for numpy-style operations. Q (verbose K) reads cleaner than numpy code - closer to English, in fact, without giving up any speed. K is the terse mathematical notation for that language.
K has 3 types: atoms, lists, and dictionaries. (atoms can be int, char, float, symbol, time or function). No objects, no strings, not even files. And yet, it is enough to express many algorithms concisely and efficiently, with bugs largely reduced to the class of off-by-one family.
The syntax is not just a superficial aspect of the language - it is fundamental to its evolution.