That article was enough to inspire me to write a K interpreter, and eventually land me a job working with K. If I ever meet Stephen Taylor in person I imagine it'll be an interesting story to tell.
That’s likely because yours was fast enough to threaten their sales, whereas RodgerTheGreat’s is JavaScript and can not.
Nick Nickolov’s one also disappeared off GitHub, though Kevin Lawler’s Kona k3 implementation and Andrey Zholos’s jitted weird dialect are fast and still up; also nils holm’s klong.
I imagine this looks more intuitive than normal code to a mathematician: They are no strangers to complex notations and they prefer the brevity they offer.
Code-review is a cool thing in SV, trendy startups and the big industry related companies, sadly on most companies whose main business is completely unrelated to IT, just like unit tests it gets a spot just behind writing documentation.
It's one of my all-time favorites. A window into a certain type of mind.