Lobsters Interview with Internet_Jannitor

Our @Internet_Janitor ( John Earnest ) crafts creative, empowering projects . Powering projects "impossibly complex for the platforms they're running on" like dp and Octoma , his project Decker reminds many of HyperCard , discussed on the Arraycast . iKe is a sound and graphics platform for oK , with example programs like Asteroids on the bottom right. In this interview, we discussed array languages (K and Lil), language design and creativity. A chicken just jumped in your lap, cute! What's her name? Galina, like the mineral. I had two, but her sister passed away; these things happen. Most of my professional experience is with K, often regarded as a successful fusion of APL sensibilities and some Lisp ideas. While pretty much every other APL has the notion of strictly rectangular arrays as the data carrier, in K, nested tree-like lists are no problem. K's syntax is essentially m-expr like Lisp was originally intended to be. How do you architect large systems in K? I've only read big AP