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From: "B. Wilson via Guix-patches" via <guix-patches@gnu.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 65935@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#65935] [PATCH] gnu: Add ngn-k.
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2023 17:06:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2IJP3PDMP581H.2003KELWBJOER@wilsonb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zg0f4pwn.fsf@gnu.org>

> This package cannot be included in Guix because what we have above is
> not source code: it’s deliberately obfuscated code, it’s not “the
> preferred form of the work for making modifications to it” (as the GPL
> puts it) in any way.
> 
> I hope that makes sense.

I agree that it's super weird, but it's not obfuscated code. Rather, it's the
famously terse Arthur Whitney style. The APL/J/K family of array-oriented
languages all famously have implementations strongly influenced by Whitney, and
ngn-k is just following in that tradition. Those with the relevant domain
knowledge tend to agree that the code is pretty readable.

If you want other examples, see

- Whitney's B interpreter: https://github.com/tlack/b-decoded
- Jsoftware's J interpreter: https://github.com/jsoftware/jsource

The latter is both GPL-3 and actively maintained.




  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-20 15:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-14  5:39 [bug#65935] [PATCH] gnu: Add ngn-k B. Wilson via Guix-patches via
2023-10-18 20:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-10-20 15:06   ` B. Wilson via Guix-patches via [this message]
2023-11-20 11:28     ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-11-20 11:52       ` B. Wilson via Guix-patches via

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