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I've looked at some of the ascii APL relatives, and my impression was that they are probably great for working with numbers, but seem like they'd be bad for wor

• RodgerTheGreat 10y ago
  K relaxes the traditional APL constraints on "rectangular data", which makes it comparatively quite good at dealing with text manipulation. I frequently use K for working with text and it works nicely. Anything you can represent as a list structure can have all the traditional APL-ish tools brought to bear on it. As for "other things", here are a few K sketches I've written recently: - generate random island shorelines: http://johnearnest.github.io/ok/ike/ike.html?gist=629a86c2577401b385abb3a72beb108c http://johnearnest.github.io/ok/ike/ike.html?gist=629a86c257... - animated holiday card: http://johnearnest.github.io/ok/ike/ike.html?gist=e5fdbb8724a0d3a4c69dd08d335a6feb http://johnearnest.github.io/ok/ike/ike.html?gist=e5fdbb8724... - an implementation of the arcade game "Snake": http://johnearnest.github.io/ok/ike/ike.html?gist=ead275c52940fd601763df2dbf6c01cf http://johnearnest.github.io/ok/ike/ike.html?gist=ead275c529... And that's just me! There are many interesting examples and essays here: http://www.nsl.com http://www.nsl.com