An evening with the K language › Steve Jenson's blog

An introduction to the K Language. A few things of note. K is written by the same guy who wrote the A+ financial language for Morgan Stanley. The Kx team also wrote KDB, a super-fast relational db in K. KDB is written with no loops. None, not a while, not a for, not a do. Apparently that's not uncommon of K.

My opinion on closed languages is to avoid them and I've done that sofar with K, even though I've known about it for a year or so and I was therefore interested to hear the Kx team is apparently open to the idea of releasing K if there's a big enough developer community behind it. It's such an interesting language I can't imagine not programming in it if it were open. Is Kx creating a Catch 22? [via LtU]