Origins of J

• altc

  2 13 10.0 C

  scaffolding for my c projects

> README

good idea, why not

for a more throw-me-in-the-water introduction, here are my notes on another famous public domain release from atw. some remarks are specific to the codebase, but essentially it is a general introduction to atwc:

https://github.com/kparc/bcc/blob/master/d/sidenotes.md

and here’s a less involved way to get lit:

https://github.com/aaalt/altc

• bcc

  4 27 0.0 C

  bcc is a b compiler (by kparc)

  

> README

good idea, why not

for a more throw-me-in-the-water introduction, here are my notes on another famous public domain release from atw. some remarks are specific to the codebase, but essentially it is a general introduction to atwc:

https://github.com/kparc/bcc/blob/master/d/sidenotes.md

and here’s a less involved way to get lit:

https://github.com/aaalt/altc

• InfluxDB

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• ooj

  1 59 4.3 C

  the origins of J

• ok

  30 575 4.2 JavaScript

  An open-source interpreter for the K5 programming language. (by JohnEarnest)

This - https://github.com/JohnEarnest/ok - can also be used sometimes...

• j-incunabulum

  2 33 0.0 C

• pf

  1 7 4.0 C

  tiny printf(3) for bare metal (by kparc)

  

> soon to be lost to obscurity

well, about that i’m just not so sure.

as we like to say, “skill”, for whatever reason you chose to use quotes, cannot be easily bought on a Turkish fish market.

there are people out there who write atwc, and they are not atw. the following 40 lines of c are written strictly arthur-style, and are occasionally very useful. in the faq section of the readme there is an answer to a popular question “why is it written this way, and how to learn to write software this way”.

https://github.com/kparc/pf

• kcc

  1 180 10.0

  k crash course (by kparc)

  

true. only k is faster, easier to learn, and does the trick :)

that said, i hold the view that mastering programming in an ultra-high level language such as APL or k does not absolve a computer programmer from learning lingua franca of our trade, which is due to k&r, will stay around for a very long time, and is called C.

people who don’t know c are ok, only they are not involved in computer programming. their field is known as software development. feel the difference.

i once attempted to convey my own understanding of this divide in a chapter titled “no stinking loops”, which is a nod to Apter’s mandatory nsl.com:

https://github.com/kparc/kcc#no-stinking-loops

• WorkOS

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