I used to use Q (the "simplified" successor to K) in one of my first jobs, and to this day I haven't decided whether Arthur Whitney is a sadist, a genius, or both.
I used to use Q (the "simplified" successor to K) in one of my first jobs, and to this day I haven't decided whether Arthur Whitney is a sadist, a genius, or both.
Going to the root page for the domain, you come across this lovely tidbit: I rather hate to admit there are times I wrote javascript code that looked like that.
Going to the root page for the domain, you come across this lovely tidbit:
k is similar to python and javascript [...]
I rather hate to admit there are times I wrote javascript code that looked like that.
It began badly. We were walking along the South Downs Way in early summer, the sun glittering on the English Channel on our right, the Weald of Sussex stretching away to our left. “How big,” asked Arthur, “should a text editor be?”
I’ve known Whitney most of my life. I know what he does. I know his stupid questions. And still I can’t resist trying to give helpful answers. “I don’t know. One could find out, surely? What do Emacs and Vim weigh – tens of megabytes?”
“I’ve got a text editor in four lines of K. Just need to add Copy and Paste.”
This reminds me of the legendary story of Mel. It’s impressive but I’d hate to be this guy’s colleague. When your code looks like Perl code golf and that’s idiomatic, you gotta start wondering...
This reminds me of the legendary story of Mel. It’s impressive but I’d hate to be this guy’s colleague. When your code looks like Perl code golf and that’s idiomatic, you gotta start wondering what you’re doing with your life.
I used to use Q (the "simplified" successor to K) in one of my first jobs, and to this day I haven't decided whether Arthur Whitney is a sadist, a genius, or both.
Going to the root page for the domain, you come across this lovely tidbit:
I rather hate to admit there are times I wrote javascript code that looked like that.
There's a fantastic post on Whitney I read a few years ago; let me find it.
@Greg:
http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10501320
This reminds me of the legendary story of Mel. It’s impressive but I’d hate to be this guy’s colleague. When your code looks like Perl code golf and that’s idiomatic, you gotta start wondering what you’re doing with your life.
He's a multimillionaire because of his code, so I can't imagine he's that sorry!
That was fascinating - it's like reading the rationale of a 10x programmer writ large, in one of the few situations that it really did pay off!
He's not the most brilliant programmer who's ever been seriously discussed, but I certainly find his approach interesting, if nothing else.
Wow...
The base of it is only four lines!
I love elegant programmes. My mother did cryptography and showed me stuff she did for fun when she was my age and it looked like what you did here.
It's not mine, unfortunately, but yeah, absolutely! I love languages that lend themselves toward elegance!