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k/simple is a bare minimum k interpreter for learning purposes by arthur whitney

10 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 2 stories, 8 comments · first 2024-01-17 · latest 2026-07-30

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  1. Partially reminds me (due to _V,_f,_F,f,F) Whitney's ksimple implementation[1]. [1]: https://github.com/kparc/ksimple/tree/main/ref#ac
    comment by forgotpwd16 · 2026-01-21 · in Golfing APL/K in 90 Lines of Python
  2. …taken out of context (which is explicitly stated at the very top of the corresponding readme, https://github.com/kparc/ksimple ). ioccc is often brought up in such HN rants, but the comparison is off mark completely. if you can't read…
    comment by kelas · 2025-10-21 · in Don't Force Your LLM to Write Terse [Q/Kdb] Code: An Information Theory Argument
  3. When Q folks try to write C: https://github.com/kparc/ksimple
    comment by krackers · 2025-10-20 · in Don't Force Your LLM to Write Terse [Q/Kdb] Code: An Information Theory Argument
  4. …selfish reasons, i always chose the former, and it seems to perform better than the latter, proof: https://github.com/kparc/ksimple https://github.com/kparc/kcc still, neither approach is anywhere near the chances of successfuly explaining…
    comment by kelas · 2025-07-09 · in Why LLMs Can't Write Q/Kdb+: Writing Code Right-to-Left
  5. Background on k/simple: https://github.com/kparc/ksimple Background on k: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_(programming_language) The OCaml code looks terribly write only, super hard to follow. Comments would help a lot.
    comment by juancn · 2025-01-03 · in K/Simple in OCaml
  6. Thanks. I'm now reading this where people are trying to explain what happened in the ref/ directory. https://github.com/kparc/ksimple/blob/main/a.c
    comment by frankjr · 2024-06-01 · in Arthur Whitney releases an open-source subset of K with MIT license
  7. I think this practice is generally good for "most fast things" I noticed that https://github.com/kparc/ksimple/blob/31370a2c799a2a0e491d52... uses this approach too (this is the core of the k apl which is used in finance and engineering…
    comment by bjconlan · 2024-05-28 · in Low-latency scripting for game engines
  8. …are also working on k/fun/junior which should be open source and about 25kb binary. [0] https://github.com/kparc/ksimple [1] https://shakti.com
    comment by anonzzzies · 2024-05-13 · in Learning K programming: idiom by idiom [pdf]