John Earnest and Versions of k
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K5 K6 Is an Incremental Refinement of K3
K5 k6 was an incremental refinement of the language. The semantic differences between k5 and k3 are a significant like overall improvement of the language so they're useful but it's not really like what you think of as a general purpose dictionary in k5 um you have anything is valid as a dictionary key for example. dictionaries have an algebra the the primitives throughout the language actually generalized to them in useful ways such as if you comma a dictionary with another dictionary what you get is the union of those dictionaries. It doesn't have a lot of entirely new things but the generalizations bring out all these wonderful symmetries that you don't get in the earlier drafts of language
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