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As someone who does not know what k4, qSQL, or q are, reading through the landing page of this website was giving me mild schizophrenia. And then I tried to sea
by bikeshaving 2mo ago
As someone who does not know what k4, qSQL, or q are, reading through the landing page of this website was giving me mild schizophrenia. And then I tried to search for these things in the old way, and received incredibly dry technical sites that still don’t tell me what it is, and all these names are wildly SEO unfriendly. So I had Claude give me context and it’s apparently the database Wall Street uses for tick data. Sounds cool but, jeez.
- zacharynewton 2mo ago¯\_(ツ)_/¯ quants be minimal
- ofalkaed 2mo agoK4 is the K programming language, Q is a language built on top of K. They are the practical over achieving members of the array family of programming languages.
- jloveless 2mo agoshoutout to bryan @bcantrill who I think explained K best at https://youtu.be/2wZ1pCpJUIM?si=y4ugbFXroTZc22AY&t=471 https://youtu.be/2wZ1pCpJUIM?si=y4ugbFXroTZc22AY&t=471 and https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1531242 https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1531242
- cassepipe 2mo agoI believe k and q are member of the "array programming"/APL family of languages who are exceptionally terse/information-dense https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Array_programming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Array_programming EDIT: Did someone downvoted this because it is wrong or is someone I am arguing with rage-downvoted this ?
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- vessenes 2mo agoAlgol derivatives usually written by, commercialized, then sold by Arthur Whitney. Generally considered write-only :)