ngn/k
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| Developer | ngn |
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| Released | 2017 |
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| Dialect | K6 |
| Temporal types | none |
| Table support | yes (no prettyprinting) |
| Prototypes | partial support |
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| Implemented in | C |
| Platforms | x86_64 |
| Operating Systems | Linux, BSD, Windows(unofficial) |
| License | AGPL |
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| Website | Codeberg |
| Documentation | in repl |
| Run Online | editor (Bitbucket, Codeberg), repl (Bitbucket, Codeberg) |
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| Influenced By | K7, K9 |
ngn/k is an implementation of K6 created by ngn.
ngn/k has undergone several rewrites, borrowing ideas from many Arthur Whitney Ks, and occasionally deviating from their functionality.
ngn/k is written in Whitney C, and is written to be performant, compact, and with minimal dependencies.
History[edit]
Development on ngn/k was started on April 9, 2017[1]. The older Github repository for ngn/k points towards kparc.io[2] for its spec.
The codebase was then moved to Gitlab. The exact date is not known since the repository no longer exists on the site.
The ngn/k repl and editor was created in October 2020 and subsequently moved from ngn.bitbucket.io to ngn.bitbucket.io/k[3]. It has remained in that state ever since.
The codebase was the moved to Sourcehut (sr.ht) on December 21, 2020[4].
The current version of ngn/k resides in Codeberg, and the move was officially announced on May 21, 2021[5]. The codeberg repository has its initial commit at 2019, where it had support for x86_64 linux only.
ngn/k was indefinitely frozen[6] on May 24, 2022.
In January 2024, ngn/k was announced to be no longer supported.
Running[edit]
The main way of running ngn/k is building it. This can be done reliably on Unix-like systems with the help of either clang-12 or gcc-10 C compilers, and the make utility. Build instructions can be found in the ngn/k README file.
ngn/k has a WASM distribution available online. These can be accessed from the "Run Online" links in the sidebar. The Codeberg page is restricted in some countries.
Traws has a fork of ngn/k on Github which is made for compilation under cosmopolitan libc.
Features[edit]
I/O Verbs[edit]
ngn/k's I/O verbs are defined as per the K6 standard. They are made up of a single digit, followed by a : symbol: loc u: data for output and u: loc for input.
A symbol, string or number can be given as loc. Any number given must be a valid tie number (see: Tie(ngn/k)).
Every input verb is classified by data:
0:takes lists of strings. (concatenates them with newlines)1:takes a single string.
Reserved Symbols[edit]
ngn/k has reserved symbols used for providing access to features that are not important enough to be added as primitives, but still warrant a name for quick use. These symbols can be used like any other nouns.
The ngn/k help topic for adverbs is available at \` in the ngn/k repl.
Defined Verbs[edit]
ngn/k allows creation of new verbs that can be used infix, as part of its syntax. These must be defined as follows (using ∇ as an example symbol):
(∇:): monad (∇): dyad
References[edit]
- ↑ https://github.com/ngn/k/commits/aff40c33f75eeab4c5f69fa55b795d83fbd6288a
- ↑ https://kparc.com/k.txt
- ↑ https://chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=ngn.bitbucket.io&Room=90748&page=10&pagesize=50& sort=newest
- ↑ https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/90748?m=56558503#56558503
- ↑ https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/57843141#57843141
- ↑ https://codeberg.org/ngn/k/commit/7e7420217f9df95273a8605e05d6335d66dd8f8a