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What would be interesting, and perhaps informative, if is we could share our some of our favorite k programs and then people could try to write faster implementations in C.

I like benchmarks that I can easily run on any computer myself.

For me, a major part of k's appeal is the (original) author's appreciation for small interpeter size and language terseness. Generally, I think k will always beat C, and probably any scripting language you can think of, in that department.

The issue of verbosity is so polarising amongst the vocal programmers who comment online that even if k were faster than whatever language (and free, open source, etc.), I would bet many of them still would reject the idea of using it.