Yeah I can see the benefit of pandas for those reading the code. I think they learnt from kdb that both backwards and forwards was needed. Kdb had to create a

Yeah I can see the benefit of pandas for those reading the code. I think they learnt from kdb that both backwards and forwards was needed. Kdb had to create a new aj0 function. But your point is valid that kdb may be over optimising for first writing code.