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These line-noise programming languages read like a cruel joke on engineers in the finance world.

• co_dh 4y ago
  I am happily programming in a for 6 years now, and will not give it up
  • pwdisswordfishc 4y ago
    Happily programming in a what?
    • qznc 4y ago
      Arthur Whitney (creator of many APL dialects) created A, then Morgan Stanley extended it into A+. So maybe simply „a“ was the name.
    • co_dh 4y ago
      In q/kdb. iPhone replaced q with a. Sorry
• CraigRo 4y ago
  MS has a 500+ person mailing list for peer help on kdb/q/whatever. They also have a site license, and herds of consultants from first derivatives. It is much easier to become good at k/q if you have experts sitting next to you. Learning this at home (or reading about it on hn) can be very frustrating!