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Maybe this will help? I wrote the following up a few years ago now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8476633

Thanks for that write up. Is there a decent reference or tutorial for ‘k’ online that you would recommend? I would like to learn more about it’s semantics. For example, the views concept and how old versions of a view/var? Are available.

Not to my knowledge. There are a fair number of documents[1] describing the language to be sure, but it is difficult to divorce K from its implementation(s), so k2, k3, k4, k5 (etc) are all different languages. Your best bet is to download some implementations and try it out. k4 is built-in to kx's q which has a free download[3], just enter a line with a backslash on it to get into k.

Views are just a convenient syntax for memoization. Old versions of the value aren't available.

[1]: http://web.archive.org/web/20041022042401/http://www.kx.com/...

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20130801233812/http://www.kuro5h...

[3]: https://kx.com/

There's a decent tutorial now at shakti.com:

https://shakti.com/tutorial/

oK is an implementation of K6 in Javascript. No views, but you can play with it in your browser and the documentation is pretty good.

http://johnearnest.github.io/ok/index.html

https://github.com/JohnEarnest/ok/blob/gh-pages/docs/Manual....

https://github.com/JohnEarnest/ok/blob/gh-pages/docs/Program...

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