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You’re not wrong. While writing K you sit in the repl and work out each piece as you go and make sure it gives the result you expect and then build up.


Hmm yeah if you have to go to those lengths to write it then I seriously doubt anyone else could read it. Not easily anyway.

Seems a lot like regexes - terse and powerful but essentially write-only.


Many people can read it easily. Developing things in a repl is common in many languages, it doesn't mean the code is unreadable.


And the result of this trial-and-error programming process is, supposedly, a program that is protected from bugs because... it is short and you can see it on your screen all at once.

Not sure I buy it.




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