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jnordwick

> K stands for “keys to the kingdom”.

Lol. It's actually just the letter after J, since K was supposed to be the next in the APL-ish family.

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also: https://web.archive.org/web/20041024212043/http://www.kx.com...

> i call most of my languages A but to avoid confusion i switched to the phoenician aleph.

(h/t chrispsn)

Arthur wrote the article :)

Ha, I didn't notice that. But I've heard it before on the K list. I think it is more of a backronym than a serious statement. This is a guy who names his source files a.c, b.c, c.c, ..., z.c.

I'm unsure why Ken Iverson named the J language that though.

Probably because A through I were already taken.

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