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That's the "Whitney style". See: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabulum https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabulum It's writing C in array-

• frankjr 2y ago
  Thanks. I'm now reading this where people are trying to explain what happened in the ref/ directory. https://github.com/kparc/ksimple/blob/main/a.c https://github.com/kparc/ksimple/blob/main/a.c
  • dcuthbertson 2y ago
    Thanks for that link. The comments there help a lot. If I understand them, this is a minimal implementation of K with a lot of limitations, such as: "the only supported atom/vector type is 8bit integer, so beware of overflows" Still, it's fascinating how an interpreter can be written with such a small amount of code.
    • tromp 2y ago
      An interpreter for BLC, including tokenizing, parsing, and evaluation, can be written in as few as 29 bytes of BLC (and 650 bytes of C).
      • tasuki 2y ago
        John, do tell more about BLC please!
        • tromp 2y ago
          There's more at http://tromp.github.io/cl/cl.html http://tromp.github.io/cl/cl.html including the LispNYC talk I gave last year.
          • tasuki 2y ago
            Thank you!
• im3w1l 2y ago
  Personally I believe in a sort of "evolution" of software that operates independently of intentions of the programmers. I can totally believe that he didn't intentionally obfuscate it, but its incomprehensibility made it harder for other people to make a knockoff and thats why it survived and became successful.