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Heh. Morgan Stanley open sourced Aplus a long time ago.

• eddie_the_head 14y ago
  Have you ever used it or any other APL? I'm currently getting familiar with K, which is the language Whitney and the company he founded (Kx Systems) after he left Morgan Stanley made, but from an open source implementation called Kona by Kevin Lawler and Scott Vokes: https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona
  • joshu 14y ago
    No. I get the sense that Aplus was used by the Fixed Income division more. I was in Equities; our wacky custom language was Perl. I still have "font kaplgallant not found" nightmares from time to time.
  • f45s8g2 14y ago
    There was someone on Kuro5hin some years ago who called k an Excel replacement. The more I use kona (which isn't very much), the more I believe he was right. It seems like a really nice little language. Much more agile than a "desktop spreadsheet program".