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Ok, where are you planning to go, and why? What will be your major?

You should look at graduates of Tsinghua and the IITs. The IITs, as the top engineering schools in India, have a 0.92% acceptance rate. [1] Meanwhile, Tsinghua accepts 0.92% of Beijing applicants and close to 0.1% from elsewhere in China. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Entrance_Examination_–_A... [2] https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d674e7841444d78457a6333566d54/...

This is exactly what happens at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. By law, ETH is required to admit any Swiss secondary school graduate - to compensate, the courses are designed to filter out students. As a result, about 50% [1] of the entering class will drop out. This system is not likely to be popular in the US.

[1] http://tech.mit.edu/V126/N41/41Switz.html

The founders of Kx (Arthur Whitney and Janet Lustgarten) sold their stakes in the company to First Derivatives plc and have now founded Shakti. Kdb+ is still sold by Kx. Shakti seems to be a successor system to kdb+.

As for you second question, how would brandelf change the binary (disclaimer: not a BSD user)?

Interestingly enough, the k expression for the "write access" email is valid in K4.

If you would prefer to use keywords instead of symbols, Nial is a good option: https://github.com/danlm/QNial7

Perhaps Nial would be of interest: https://github.com/danlm/QNial7

It answers this question: if the language is so great and has been around for so long, why haven't we heard about it?