Kona, an open-source implementation of the K language
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Re: Kona, an open-source implementation of the K language
#2Nice! One of my friends works with K and I've always wanted to play around with it but licenses are super expensive. I need a manual now though :)
Re: Kona, an open-source implementation of the K language
#3Nice! One of my friends works with K and I've always wanted to play around with it but licenses are super expensive. I need a manual now though :)
To answer myself, there's a lot of material here: https://anonymous:anonymous@code.kx.com/trac
Re: Kona, an open-source implementation of the K language
#4Not only does the target language read like line noise[0], so does the interpreter source code. I mean, seriously: https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona/blob/master/k.c
Can someone please confirm that this isn't an IOCCC entry?
[0] I kid. K's actually pretty readable, for a language in its class.
Re: Kona, an open-source implementation of the K language
#5Not only does the target language read like line noise[0], so does the interpreter source code. I mean, seriously: https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona/blob/master/k.c Can someone please confirm that this isn't an IOCCC entry? [0] I kid. K's actually pretty readable, for a language in its class.
I can confirm this isn't an IOCCC entry. It looks like obscurantism, but it isn't. It's C code written as terse as possible, not as confusingly as possible. It takes a while to get used to. It's worth it.
There is significant overhead involved in learning to write C like this. There are also significant gains. It's similar to learning to use vim.
Last I counted the source was something like 250K bytes and still very manageable. If it had been written in a traditional style it would be many times that size and much harder to work with.