My god, AW is even willing to #include now!
K/simple: a tiny K interpreter for educational purposes by Arthur Whitney
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Re: K/simple: a tiny K interpreter for educational purposes by Arthur Whitney
#92J, the predecessor to K, also by the same author, is written in nearly the same style, but shorter: https://www.jsoftware.com/ioj/iojATW.htm (Discussed previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25902615 ) There's something very satisfying about how this style seems to "climb the abstraction ladder" very quickly, but all of those abstractions he creates are not wasted and immediately put to use. I think much of…
Whitney seems to have an obsession, and a real knack, for writing or rewriting array languages.
Re: K/simple: a tiny K interpreter for educational purposes by Arthur Whitney
#93What do they mean by "atw-style" ?
I'm guessing it's his initials; Arthur T. Whitney or perhaps ArThur Whitney, and possibly his account name.
Whitney and I both worked in the 1970s for I.P. Sharp Associates, which used an email system written beautifully in APL by Leslie Goldsmith. Most user names were simply our initials. Ian Sharp was IPS, Leslie LHG, and Arthur ATW. (Middle name Taylor.) I’ve been SJT ever since (including to two wives) but was not smart enough to grab the domain: see 5jt.com.