Funnily enough, the framework is actually a more expansive version of a tick system developed by Kx (the company that makes kdb) https://github.com/KxSystems/kdb-tick
The Kx one is incredibly concise. When I first started working with it, it took me a while to figure out what was going on.
The larger K/q programs get, the more they tend to look like "normal" code, but you still see a lot of these clever one liners hidden away in there.