Interview With John Earnest

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 APL syste