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Kona released: Open source K3.2 [screencast]

14 points by kevinlawler 16y ago

overkill28 16y ago
Nice! anyone who's worked on wall street has seen how much people pay for K
- kevinlawler 16y ago
  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.
  - deskamess 16y ago
    Looks clean and succinct. Is there a forum/google-group that one can join to learn more about Kona?
    - chrisaycock 16y ago
      The company that originally made the "k" language (Kx Systems) has a Google group: http://groups.google.com/group/personal-kdbplus http://groups.google.com/group/personal-kdbplus That one is mostly for "q", a proprietary follow-up language. There's also the "k idioms", which are always educational: http://kx.com/technical/contribs/eugene/kidioms.html http://kx.com/technical/contribs/eugene/kidioms.html
- xkrebstarx 16y ago
  Very true. That's because only good programmers can code it.
  - kguru 16y ago
    k programmers are not in high demand, but Q developers are. k is not Q, although both languages share a common paradigm.
spacebump 16y ago
Very cool. This seems like quite a project.
jthiel 16y ago
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!
chrisaycock 16y ago
Now I'm waiting for screencast of sudoku: http://thesweeheng.wordpress.com/2008/11/30/more-sudoku-solvers-in-k-and-q/ http://thesweeheng.wordpress.com/2008/11/30/more-sudoku-solv... or game of life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4
kguru 16y ago
Why bother? Kx give away their latest version. Don't you have any original ideas?
- xkrebstarx 16y ago
  Ha! Tell that to the clang dudes too.
  - kguru 16y ago
    why?
    - xkrebstarx 16y ago
      Umm... because clang is being primed as a gcc/g++ replacement. Was that not obvious? Lol.
      - kguru 16y ago
        kona is going to replace k3.2? LMFAO. Everyone has moved on from then dude, like 2003. Was that not obvious? Lol.
        mwashawi 16y ago
        we have systems running k3 in maintenance mode and all new development is in kdb+/q
        xkrebstarx 16y ago
        Ha, tell that to the Fortran 77 dudes. There is a forest behind those trees.
        kguru 16y ago
        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

14 points by kevinlawler 16y ago

overkill28 16y ago

Nice! anyone who's worked on wall street has seen how much people pay for K

kevinlawler 16y ago
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.
- deskamess 16y ago
  Looks clean and succinct. Is there a forum/google-group that one can join to learn more about Kona?
  - chrisaycock 16y ago
    The company that originally made the "k" language (Kx Systems) has a Google group: http://groups.google.com/group/personal-kdbplus http://groups.google.com/group/personal-kdbplus That one is mostly for "q", a proprietary follow-up language. There's also the "k idioms", which are always educational: http://kx.com/technical/contribs/eugene/kidioms.html http://kx.com/technical/contribs/eugene/kidioms.html
xkrebstarx 16y ago
Very true. That's because only good programmers can code it.
- kguru 16y ago
  k programmers are not in high demand, but Q developers are. k is not Q, although both languages share a common paradigm.

spacebump 16y ago

Very cool. This seems like quite a project.

jthiel 16y ago

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!

chrisaycock 16y ago

Now I'm waiting for screencast of sudoku: http://thesweeheng.wordpress.com/2008/11/30/more-sudoku-solvers-in-k-and-q/ http://thesweeheng.wordpress.com/2008/11/30/more-sudoku-solv... or game of life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4

kguru 16y ago

Why bother? Kx give away their latest version. Don't you have any original ideas?

xkrebstarx 16y ago
Ha! Tell that to the clang dudes too.
- kguru 16y ago
  why?
  - xkrebstarx 16y ago
    Umm... because clang is being primed as a gcc/g++ replacement. Was that not obvious? Lol.
    - kguru 16y ago
      kona is going to replace k3.2? LMFAO. Everyone has moved on from then dude, like 2003. Was that not obvious? Lol.
      - mwashawi 16y ago
        we have systems running k3 in maintenance mode and all new development is in kdb+/q
      - xkrebstarx 16y ago
        Ha, tell that to the Fortran 77 dudes. There is a forest behind those trees.
        kguru 16y ago
        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