> Specifically, the claims it's perfectly readable, and anyone who says anything otherwise is either stupid, lying, or too poor to understand it are not useful.
+1. All of these "compact" languages (I'd even extend it to Perl to some extent, the way some write it), are seriously lacking in the ergonomics department. Sure, J Leet Hacker might have no problem parsing pages of the stuff. What about the coworker with dyslexia, ADHD, vision problem, etc?
Even if you aren't, what are the real gains? It seems resistant to tabcomplete, git diffs are probably near-inscrutable, grepping for snippets is probably an exercise in judicious application of backslashes... it's cute, but I don't see where this holier-than-thou is coming from (not that ANY language justifies that attitude)
Edit: oops, touched a nerve, I see. I'll add to the above the 7 +/-2 rule [0]. Sure, lets say even you COULD write a program in 1/100th or 1/1000th of the lines in k. I don't WANT a source code that looks like that. Way too much information density.
I'll give them this: perhaps the criticism is that ALGOLikes are too sparse, could stand to be denser, and k is the manifestation of the far other end of the spectrum.
+1. All of these "compact" languages (I'd even extend it to Perl to some extent, the way some write it), are seriously lacking in the ergonomics department. Sure, J Leet Hacker might have no problem parsing pages of the stuff. What about the coworker with dyslexia, ADHD, vision problem, etc?
Even if you aren't, what are the real gains? It seems resistant to tabcomplete, git diffs are probably near-inscrutable, grepping for snippets is probably an exercise in judicious application of backslashes... it's cute, but I don't see where this holier-than-thou is coming from (not that ANY language justifies that attitude)
Edit: oops, touched a nerve, I see. I'll add to the above the 7 +/-2 rule [0]. Sure, lets say even you COULD write a program in 1/100th or 1/1000th of the lines in k. I don't WANT a source code that looks like that. Way too much information density.
I'll give them this: perhaps the criticism is that ALGOLikes are too sparse, could stand to be denser, and k is the manifestation of the far other end of the spectrum.
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Pl...