Re:Peter Norvig's Sudoku solver: Clojure & Python side by side
by wagerlabs on Thursday March 31, 2011 @12:24PM
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Not what I heard last time I asked ;-). How about > 250K for a small multi-core installation?
Re:Peter Norvig's Sudoku solver: Clojure & Python side by side
by beagle3 on Friday April 01, 2011 @01:03PM
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Last time I asked (3 or 4 years ago), the smallest installation was ~$100k, and it was a multi-core installation.
IIRC in 2006 they mentioned that they were willing to entertain other financing models (such as equity) if it makes sense, although I have no idea how common that was, or if they are still considering it.
Regardless, the claim that "you can't afford to run it on your home computer" is preposterous - k itself is free for noncommercial use, and kona and J are free, both libre and gratis.
K4/Q 32-bit is free for noncommercial use http://kx.com/trialsoftware.php and has been from the day it became generally available. (And before that, k2/k3/ksql were similarly available)
A free / open source K3 interpreter is being developed in https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona , and while incomplete it is already quite capable.
Oh, and Kx are (or at least were) quite reasonable with commercial use licenses for businesses that can't yet afford them.
> Arthur's languages are awesome, no doubt about it.
That is the only true thing you wrote.