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Last year someone benchmarked a simplified raytracer in a few different languages--primarily to show off OCaml. Later, someone wrote the raytracer in 7 lines o

• ajross 18y ago
  Nifty reference, thanks. You absolutely have to read the description in the original page though. The K looks pretty much line line noise; I've seen raw sendmail scripts that look cleaner. As terse as the language might be, a little whitespace and naming conventions might still be a good idea for us newbies...
  • gruseom 18y ago
    a little whitespace and naming conventions might still be a good idea for us newbies The culture around K is fanatical about concision. This goes back to APL, though the K people (following the lead of Arthur Whitney, the designer of K and Q) take it further than anybody else. To the unfamiliar, K looks like a bad joke (check out the 40 lines of code at http://www.nsl.com/k/s/s.k http://www.nsl.com/k/s/s.k, which implement the spreadsheet at http://www.nsl.com/papers/spreadsheet.htm http://www.nsl.com/papers/spreadsheet.htm), but these people know what they're doing. Whitney's product includes the language interpreter, a massively scalable RDBMS, a web server, and God knows what else, and the last time I downloaded it, the total size was 380 KB. My experience with that stuff was that the more I looked at it, the more in awe I became. It's a shame it's not more widely available.