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you don't suppose there's something specific about kdb/q that makes its difficulty an outlier? Excel is easy, but if you were restricted to only using the keyb
by dnautics 5y ago
you don't suppose there's something specific about kdb/q that makes its difficulty an outlier?
Excel is easy, but if you were restricted to only using the keyboard to use excel, it wouldn't be so easy anymore.
- nivertech 5y agoErlang/Elixir and kdb+/q full-time developer here. I didn't had difficulty learning kdb+/q. But that's maybe because I had an early exposure to APL (I read a chapter on it in a book as a kid). Also I had a previous work experience in HPC, data-parallel computations and vectorization/SIMD using the array-programming languages such as Matlab, Octave, R, Julia, etc. And GPU Compute using CUDA/OpenCL. The really hard to learn part of the kdb is a proprietary frameworks around it. You need them in order to develop a production-grade systems.