From Arthur: design goal: speed write fast, run fast, modify fast. minimize product of vocabulary and program size. https://a.kx.com/a/k/readme.tx

From Arthur: design goal: speed write fast, run fast, modify fast. minimize product of vocabulary and program size. https://a.kx.com/a/k/readme.txt https://a.kx.com/a/k/readme.txt comprehensive programming environments (programming, files, comms, procs, ...) are depressingly complex. commonlisp, c/lib/syscalls, java, winapi are all in the 1000's of entry points. many with multiple complex parameters. with k we try to do more with less in order to write correct programs faster. https://web.archive.org/web/20041024065350/http://www.kx.com/listbox/k/msg04791.html https://web.archive.org/web/20041024065350/http://www.kx.com... > Just curious, but does the state of California charge you a large tax > for each character in a variable name? yes. we also try to fit our algorithms onto licence plates. https://web.archive.org/web/20040823040634/http://www.kx.com/listbox/k/msg02291.html https://web.archive.org/web/20040823040634/http://www.kx.com... For some 'licence plate' K algorithm dissections, you might like this Twitter account: https://twitter.com/kcodetweets https://twitter.com/kcodetweets