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As attractive are kx's claimed numbers, you'd need to be a highly motivated company to embrace it. The single character for everything culture is impenetrable

• jdright 10y ago
  Really, even brainfk makes more sense.
• sansalaman 10y ago
  Just providing readers with a different take on things: I've been coding in K professionally, after coming from a C-heavy (not functional-programming!) background, for about three months. It only took a few hours with the language to have the apparent line-noise make sense, and after a few weeks I could decipher the function of most snippets I see. There are great reasons why a dev team might not want to switch over to K for its operations (or switch languages at all, really), but seeing K in action, I have to respectfully disagree that readability and maintainability are those reasons.
• sz4kerto 10y ago
  > very high bar for maintenance at the organization level. First, it's much easier to learn k/q on a good enough level than learning C. Second, this apparent bar has a nice effect on the salary you can get for it.
• wrp 10y ago
  I've followed a lot of arguments over the accessibility of k and I'd say what it boils down to is that like Lisp or Forth, for a passionate few, it just fits how they think, and for the rest it doesn't. I tried it for a while, but found the paradigm too rigid for general purpose programming. Also, I got tired of the mental effort it took to read/write code where every line is as readable as a long regex.