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diff --git a/implementation/kclaims.md b/implementation/kclaims.md index 19cfee02..8a16a853 100644 --- a/implementation/kclaims.md +++ b/implementation/kclaims.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Sometimes I see unsourced, unclear, vaguely mystical claims about K being the fastest array language. It happens often enough that I'd like to write a long-form rebuttal to these, and a demand that the people who make these do more to justify them. -This isn't meant to put down the K language! K is in fact the only APL-family language other than BQN that I would recommend without reservations. Its C-based implementations certainly aren't slow, and choosing an array language based on performance is usually a bad idea anyway. And there's nothing wrong with the K community as a whole. Go to [the k tree](https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/90748/the-k-tree) and meet them! What I want to fight is the *myth* of K, which is carried around as much by those who used K once upon a time, and no longer have any connection to it, as by active users. +This isn't meant to put down the K language! K is in fact the only APL-family language other than BQN that I would recommend without reservations. Its C-based implementations certainly aren't slow, and choosing an array language based on performance is usually a bad idea anyway. And there's nothing wrong with the K community as a whole. Go to [the k tree](https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/90748/the-k-tree) and meet them! (Since writing, most K conversation has moved to the [same chat](../community/forums.md) as BQN; Matrix room is [#aplfarm-k:matrix.org](https://app.element.io/#/room/%23aplfarm-k:matrix.org)). What I want to fight is the *myth* of K, which is carried around as much by those who used K once upon a time, and no longer have any connection to it, as by active users. The points I argue here are narrow. To some extent I'm picking out the craziest things said about K to argue against. Please don't assume whoever you're talking to thinks these crazy things about K just because I wrote them here. Or, if they are wrong about these topics, that they're wrong about everything. Performance is a complicated and often counter-intuitive field and it's easy to be misled. |