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Do you have a link to the talk? It would not make business sense for Stefan to spend time replacing the small percentage, if it were indeed a small percentage.
by qewbie 10y ago
Do you have a link to the talk? It would not make business sense for Stefan to spend time replacing the small percentage, if it were indeed a small percentage. Actually, kdb+ is dominant everywhere on wall st, and the company mentioned in that article are retiring an old, discontinued version of k, not kdb+; perhaps that is the firm Stefan refers to? The debate about readability of k code has become boring - if you learn the language, you'll find it perfectly readable, elegant even.
- sndean 10y ago> Do you have a link to the talk? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRWZBWwBVR0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRWZBWwBVR0 (I can't listen to the audio now so I'm not sure how much I misparaphrased.) And, you're right, I shouldn't have conflated KDB+ with K. > if you learn the language, you'll find it perfectly readable, elegant even. Just comparing K to something like Python.. Though, personally, it only became (somewhat) readable after playing with APL and J for a year.
- qewbie 10y agothank you for the link. It's at 12:28 in the talk where he mentions the firm is Conning, who used k for financial simulations for insurance. In this talk, he doesn't suggest he is working with other firms to replace k/q/kdb+.