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>KDB+ (but now I love it) What changed ?

• jnordwick 9y ago
  Using it. The first demo I saw was somebody just typing K into the REPL and I didn't realize all the work it was doing. The language was a mess I thought, etc.. the usual. When I went looking into it further, the language was so clean. The concepts so simple and clear. My first programming language was Scheme so it was almost like sitting down in CS61A again and learning to program from simple constructs. And the amount of data I could pump though was incredible. There were a lot of hump and ideas I had to get over. This workspace idea it had (back in K2). Strange trigger and dependency system that a GUI was even built on. But I did get over them, and really enjoyed them. I even used some of the trigger/dependency ideas for a risk management system I worked on. It is still my favorite database. One day, just so I can say I did, I'll work at Kx for a little while if Arthur lets me :)