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lelf commented on Arthur Whitney releases an open-source subset of K with MIT license   shakti.com/k... · Posted by u/chrispsn
doug-moen · 2 years ago
FYI: This only implements a subset of K (I'd estimate 1/3).

Calling it a 'release' is an overstatement. The docs state that it is a work in progress. It's also quite buggy (it's easy to get a segmentation fault). The version I saw in January was about 1/3 the size of this version, and also buggy. I hope that the final version of this code is less buggy and more usable.

If you want to learn the K language, don't use this version. Any of the other open source K projects are better than this (more complete, less buggy, better documented). This project is good if you want to learn more about the Arthur Whitney C coding style, because it is so small. Other projects written in this style (some open source K implementations, the J language) are huge by comparison.

lelf · 2 years ago
it's work-in-progress for fun/educational purposes (i.e. read and learn something)

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