kharp – k version 3 Language Interpreter in C#

just a question.

couldn't this have been easier by expanding F#? or were they trying to hit a wider audience with C#?

Pompidou 26 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Great. But you have to simplify the sources.

reconnecting 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I don't see how this codebase could possibly be "inspired on K" (as the author writes). k is known to have ascétique aesthetic.

Also, it's `k` as per Arthur Whitney's website (1).

1. https://k.nyc/

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adrian_b 13 minutes ago | parent [-]

I doubt this, because for example in this interview with Arthur Whitney from 2009, his languages are named "K" and "Q":

https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1515964.1531242

The same in this article from 2004:

https://web.archive.org/web/20070101213150/http://vector.org...

The present site of KX has some mentions about a "q", so perhaps they have changed the spelling at some point, but at least many years ago I remember seeing only "K" and "Q".

Perhaps "k" and "q" refer to the interpreters of the languages, not to the languages themselves.

EDIT: TFA has links to a reference manual and a user manual from 1998, which use "K programming language" for the language and "K environment" for the program that includes the user interface and the K interpreter, so I have no idea who has ever used "k" for anything related to this.

	▲	reconnecting 3 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I have a letter from Mr. Whitney, and I'd say he doesn't use the shift key when typing — therefore I assume it's k.

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dvh 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What happened with the emoji galore?

	▲	troupo 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Likely AI-generated. LLMs love putting emojis on lists. Edit. From Authorship section: This ksharp interpreter implementation was coded originally by SWE-1.5 and 1.6 with significant contributions from Kimi K-2.5 and 2.6 and Claude Opus/Sonnet 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7 based on specifications, direction, prompts, comments and manual fixes provided by Eusebio Rufian-Zilbermann.
	▲	nurettin 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Feels like 7/2025 claude. Nowadays it doesn't do that very often, only when you get it into a happy-go-lucky mode.