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Re:Alternative code styles by swalladge on Monday October 15, 2018 @05:36AM (#18218457)
:O that is ... interesting. Sure that's not an entry for the ioccc? ;)
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Re:Alternative code styles by vhb on Monday October 15, 2018 @06:08AM (#18218565)
Nope :) This is being used everyday in production by most financial institutions. https://code.kx.com/wiki/Cookbook/InterfacingWithC

I've been told that the guy who wrote this believe that the brain only has a limited buffer to compute source code. So he is trying to use the shortest code possible everywhere.

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Re:Alternative code styles by saagarjha on Monday October 15, 2018 @06:27AM (#18218644)
I think looking at this code has already caused a buffer overrun in my brain ;)
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Re:Alternative code styles by 0xfeeddeadbeef on Monday October 15, 2018 @08:01AM (#18218995)
"This is being used everyday in production by most financial institutions" — you can't be serious...
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Re:Alternative code styles by mruts on Monday October 15, 2018 @08:18AM (#18219070)
KDB developers make BIG money. It's an APL-like language and used to analyze financial time-series.
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Re:Alternative code styles by userbinator on Monday October 15, 2018 @08:14AM (#18219051)
I'm not surprised, it's an APL family language.
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Re:Alternative code styles by nomel on Monday October 15, 2018 @10:29PM (#18225927)
It looks more like the guy that wrote this wanted good job security and pay, and ended up making and industry with good job security and pay.
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