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Michal Wallace, k programmer and J video producer

The Array Cast

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Is K a Traditional Language?

K is like a tradition to me, it's like a very just a traditional scripting language with a lot of shortcuts and nice syntax for doing that common thing. K is like a compressed traditional language in my point. Or at least you can treat it that way. And we have wildly different different styles of code in our code base. We tend to have like one or two people owning a particular thing. It's a web platform, right? So there's a whole database component. And then that's a massive thing that's all about distributed computation. On top of our language, we have this ability to build components and to draw them on the screen. You can compose little widgets and you

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