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overkill28
Nice! anyone who's worked on wall street has seen how much people pay for K
kevinlawler
K is a great opportunity for anyone looking to work in finance and technology. The programmers are in exceptionally high demand. This project will make it easier to become proficient in K. Anyone looking to branch into this area now has an interpreter and the corresponding source, which wasn't available before.
xkrebstarx
Very true. That's because only good programmers can code it.
kguru
k programmers are not in high demand, but Q developers are. k is not Q, although both languages share a common paradigm.
spacebump
Very cool. This seems like quite a project.
jthiel
I use pari/gp to study number theory, and it seems like Kona could easily be used to do the kinds of statistical analysis I need quickly and easily. Awesome!
kguru
Why bother? Kx give away their latest version. Don't you have any original ideas?
xkrebstarx
Ha! Tell that to the clang dudes too.
kguru
why?
xkrebstarx
Umm... because clang is being primed as a gcc/g++ replacement. Was that not obvious? Lol.
kguru
kona is going to replace k3.2? LMFAO. Everyone has moved on from then dude, like 2003. Was that not obvious? Lol.
mwashawi
we have systems running k3 in maintenance mode and all new development is in kdb+/q
xkrebstarx
Ha, tell that to the Fortran 77 dudes. There is a forest behind those trees.
kguru
that's just delusional! k was niche at best, took 10 years to get that far, and was then dropped for the next generation. How many k programmers are there worldwide? Big Dave said less than 10
xkrebstarx
Ha, like there are zillions of Fortran 77 programmers now. They still make compilers that support it though. Go figure.
kguru
zillions - does that mean like 10? jobserve shows 4 jobs for fortran. A rude awakening waits you my friend. God help anyone who trusts your business acumen. Carnap was a great success too?