Geo Carncross: How to program computers (kos)

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undecidabot · 2019-06 · Recommendation

For those who want to see it in action, there's actually a talk about kOS on YouTube: [VIDEO] . The talk is by the fourth member, Geo, who also frequents HN (geocar).

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beagle3 · 2017-07 · Recommendation

Not very easy to come by, but if you haven't seen it yet, here's a presentation by geocar from 2014: [VIDEO]

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kick · 2020-03 · Reference

I'm very much a believer in concise notation (more than most people I've worked with), but the advantages of having a name that can be unambiguously spoken are large enough to outweigh a small constant factor. I don't believe this holds up to scrutiny. APL as a language was made to be spoken, and it seems to have succeeded in that. Alan Perlis briefly touched on that in a great paper,[1] and just about everyone who's worked with the language and its derivatives agrees that your statement isn't true. The idea that APL and its derivatives can't be "read and talked about" is frankly ignoring reality by any stretch of the imagination. For example, here's [2] [3] [4] some videos disproving your statement, the first two being APL, the last being k itself. For extra bonus points, see Aaron Hsu's talks [5]; pick any of them, they're all pretty good, and most have a segment in them explaining how that viewpoint is wrong. [1] [LINK] [2] [LINK] [3] [LINK] [4] [VIDEO] [5] [LINK]

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