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Looks like the author figured it all out at the very beginning: > If each punctuation character in the K is a separate part of speech, and you reverse their or
by heinrichhartman 7y ago
Looks like the author figured it all out at the very beginning:
> If each punctuation character in the K is a separate part of speech, and you reverse their order
+ / ! 100
plus reduce range 100
This seems to be how this works.
Compare that to math equations like these ones:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_equations#Formulation_in_SI_units_convention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_equations#Formulat...
You would not expect them to read them like a paragraph.
You are expect to read them symbol by symbol and unpack from the inner out.
K seems to be a dense language.
Expect to read it symbol by symbol, not word by word or line by line.
If will be come more readable if you (1) slow down (2) get used to the programming patterns.
Not saying K is a good language or anything.
But the frustration of the author seems to have more to do with impaticence and mismatched expectations than with flaws in the language itself.
- yiyus 7y agoThe author is a K professional developer who works with K on a daily basis and have implemented a K interpreter in JS (oK). He is not frustrated, he is making a point. It looks like you perfectly got the point.
- heinrichhartman 7y agoThanks for the clarification.
- buzzkillington 7y ago>You would not expect them to read them like a paragraph. You are expect to read them symbol by symbol and unpack from the inner out. As someone who has a bunch of letters before my name because of physics, no. You don't read physics symbol by symbol. You expand those symbols to pages and pages, meditate on those pages and achieve enlightenment on one small aspect of the problem. There is so much implicit state in those equations they are basically meaningless. A nice book that deals with all the implicit state and terrible unclear notation used in physics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_of_Classical_Mechanics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_o...