As posted at The Lambda The Ultimate:

> Kona is a new open-source implementation of Arthur Whitney's K, an
> ASCII-based APL like language. Kona is a fully working version of K3.
> 
> If you haven't ever tried APL/J/K or ilk you might find this language
> incomprehensible at first -- unless you like a challenge! Watch the
> screencasts or read some of our earlier APL/J stories.
> 
> Regardless of your interest in K, any LtUer worth his salt will enjoy the
> source code. We wrote a bit about the history of the remarkable C coding
> style used in the past, but I can't locate the link at the moment.
> 
[http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4248]

Speaking about fold/reduce/insert, it's interesting how it's done in K
(at least in the version I checked some time ago, I'm not sure whether
it is the same in K3):

In J, dyadic v/ is a table, while in K, 
it's reduce where the left (or was it right?) argument is 
accumulator.

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