The "Abridged Q Language Manual" gives a flavour http://www.kx.com/q/d/q.htm http://www.kx.com/q/d/q.htm Even the URL is terse. The attitude is "this is so obv

The "Abridged Q Language Manual" gives a flavour http://www.kx.com/q/d/q.htm http://www.kx.com/q/d/q.htm Even the URL is terse. The attitude is "this is so obvious, I don't know why I'm even telling you". And if you work at it, you will eventually realise: yes, it is obvious. The product is fantastically good at what it does. Maybe with today's SSDs and hundreds of GB of RAM you don't need such highly-optimised software, but it's still something to marvel at, like Petra, or the Merlin engine.