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Re:Lessons from APL, a “Lost” Language by Aearnus on Monday November 18, 2019 @02:32AM (#21562553)
I wouldn't really call APL/J/K "lost" (or "dead", or "useless", or...). There's an active community on Reddit and there's a pretty active circle of APL'ers on Twitter. It wasn't ever a super mainstream language, but it's definitely not lost its appeal -- maybe even as a fun hobbyists' language.
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Re:Lessons from APL, a “Lost” Language by smabie on Monday November 18, 2019 @05:42AM (#21563257)
kdb+/q is reasonably popular. And the salaries are very very high. I know some q guys pulling in over a million/year.
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Re:Lessons from APL, a “Lost” Language by non-entity on Monday November 18, 2019 @09:34AM (#21564567)
Wow I had never heard of those technologies before. What kind of background would you have to have to get a job like that? What companies are hiring people on damn near a million?
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Re:Lessons from APL, a “Lost” Language by smabie on Monday November 18, 2019 @01:12PM (#21566601)
Banks. Maybe some hedge funds or prop trading shops, but mostly banks.
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