It's different. But it is definitely not shit. The majority of use shouldn't write code like this. But those who can create amazing things.

Here's a working adaptation that is quite close to the original. https://github.com/tangentstorm/j-incunabulum/blob/master/mj...

A current version of the k language still has traces of it inside. And there are still people on Wall Street running mission critical systems with it. http://kx.com/q/c/c/k.h

The kona project attempts an open source implementation. And they give some rationale on the paricular coding style. https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona/wiki/Coding-Guidelines