The one thing that makes you think different when working with these languages for a bit, is that your mind has to move differently from when you are doing 'reg

The one thing that makes you think different when working with these languages for a bit, is that your mind has to move differently from when you are doing 'regular' programming. > Will the vector solution thing still be elegant if parentheses that are escaped with a backslash don't count? Oh, and backslashes can also be escaped, so the paren in "\\(" still counts. Oh and you can have a quoted segment in the string where parens don't count. As expected, quotes can be escaped.. You name 4 additional 'features' to the issue; in a c-like language, for example, you would amend the original problem with extra code to add these in. And, usually, you can recognise the original problem solution somewhere inside the final code. In k you might find that the final solution is the same size as the original but has no (seeming) overlap at all. You might find, that when you bring the problems as managers often do; after you implemented 1 thing, they would in with 'oh, it does this as well, amirite?', that you could end up with 5 solutions that are completely different but the last one delivers the features you required. Good or bad, that's a matter of taste, situation etc.