KML has far fewer features than, say, Matlab or Mathematica. It is nothing more than a quick hack. However, it has the following benefits:

• Because I wrote the code, I can create precisely those features I want.
• I/O formats are what I want them to be.
• KML programs starts up quickly.
• KML programs are scriptable.
• It is easy to link KML into pre-existing C programs.
• I can compile and run KML on any machine with a C compiler.

Most KML executables do their I/O using binary floating-point format, in network byte order. Tools are provided for converting from binary to ASCII and vice versa.

To do: talk about interleaving of real and imaginary parts, and row-major vs. column-major order.

To do.

To do.

I have not modified KML recently, do not presently need to.