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Yeah, the reason oK was a toy was because John Earnest works for a company that has their own fork of the K3 source, if I remember correctly, which puts him in an area that won't end with one of Kx's harsh lawsuits getting dismissed immediately.

(Not that if he made a high-performance interpreter it'd be a bad thing legally: the reason GNU's programming guidelines are so archaic is partially because everyone implementing GNU early-on had seen the UNIX source code yet they could get around getting sued by writing esoterically.)




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