It might be simpler to view these languages from the perspective of "general purpose" or "specialized." General purpose languages rely on social compatibility b

It might be simpler to view these languages from the perspective of "general purpose" or "specialized." General purpose languages rely on social compatibility because they're meant to handle a wide range of common development. Specialized languages can ignore familiarity because they're used by specialized teams for specific purposes. That appears to be the cases with K, which (AFAIK) gets a lot of use in financial modeling. Could K become a general purpose language? Maybe, but it always strikes me as odd that that feasibility as a mainstream language comes up so frequently when K is discussed. It's not the high-order bit of the conversation.