Having “Arthur Whitney,” “style” and “approachable” in the same sentence implies quite an ambitious undertaking! As someone who has worked with k before, I’ve always struggled to demonstrate how different Arthur’s style of programming was. Now I have a great resource!

For those who don’t have much background knowledge of what’s going on here, I highly recommend Bryan Cantrill’s interview with Arthur from 2009.

Arthur is one of the few people who can say

In C I never learned to use the debugger so I used to never make mistakes, but now I make mistakes and I just put in a print statement.

and back it up.

Interesting! However I’m confused by the descriptions.

bare minimum atw-style interpreter for learning purposes

a tiny k interpreter for educational purposes by arthur whitney

Does atw stand for Arthur Whitney? atw doesn’t seem to be a programming language acronym. If atw standards for Arthur Whitney, why is it just atw-style if it was actually written by Arthur Whitney? The git contributors also don’t exactly seem to be Arthur Whitney.

So I guess the “by arthur whitney” bit is not right. Or I’m missing something.