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Re:Origins of J by DrDroop on Thursday January 04, 2024 @11:57AM (#38869335)
K is at the end of the day a fancy calculator, I think for most workloads you can use the open source version called ngn/k
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Re:Origins of J by avmich on Thursday January 04, 2024 @12:01PM (#38869387)
This - https://github.com/JohnEarnest/ok - can also be used sometimes...
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Re:Origins of J by anotherjhacker on Thursday January 04, 2024 @01:30PM (#38870511)
Sure, a fancy calculator that supports rather efficient execution on ridiculously large machine farms. What some people might call the implementation language for a database engine.
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Re:Origins of J by kelas on Thursday January 04, 2024 @01:53PM (#38870772)
> k is a fancy calculator

[put your favorite Java here] is also a fancy calculator by the virtue of Turing completeness. what’s your point?

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Re:Origins of J by 7thaccount on Thursday January 04, 2024 @07:49PM (#38874306)
Quant firms don't spend millions on what is just "a fancy calculator". It's more than that. It's a high performance combination of programming language and database that are tightly integrated together and more than the sum of their parts. I wouldn't want to write generic software in it, but it's pretty powerful for analysis.
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