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I think this is what you really want to ask: “This style of programming is totally foreign to me. Clearly this is intentional — I am curious as to why you chose it. Can you explain?” :-)

Understanding why someone else makes a difference choice can be illuminating. Given that the author of the original k has written at least 5 or 6 versions of the language interpreter from scratch every time in this style, he must be doing something right. Right?



> Given that the author of the original k has written at least 5 or 6 versions of the language interpreter from scratch every time in this style, he must be doing something right. Right?

Not necessarily, but others have pointed out reasons why one might write code this way.




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