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What does "k4 is proprietary" mean? Does that mean one way run into problems building an open-source implementation of the language itself?
by dotnwat 5y ago
What does "k4 is proprietary" mean? Does that mean one way run into problems building an open-source implementation of the language itself?
- maximus-decimus 5y agoIt's written by a private company with no public docs and no public implementation. Hell, it's not even directly sold, since it's just used as the backend for Q. I have heard of people getting into legal problems for making a Q clone but not for k3/k6 implementations, so I don't know where they draw the line there.
- opencl 5y agoThere are some a few public docs. https://estradajke.github.io/k9-simples/ https://estradajke.github.io/k9-simples/ https://code.kx.com/q/learn/ https://code.kx.com/q/learn/