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I don't think he was actually arguing that K is domain-specific, he was just observing that it seems that way to outsiders.

If anything, the most successful applications seem to be with databases (not math), but it's also pretty great for interactive graphics:

https://github.com/JohnEarnest/ok/tree/gh-pages/ike

I work at the same company as the author, and we use K3 for all kinds of things -- system administration, network servers, interactive web apps.

It's a pretty general purpose language. And you can even do old-school loops if you want. It's just very concise.

Also, in K, there's a whole set of one-or-two-character symbols that allow you to express other uses of loops in traditional languages.




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