yang_guo

As a guy with a terrible memory, I think of it the opposite way. For Q (and more so K), the actual number of distinct items to remember is very small, as basically anything complex is created by composition of the simple functions/variables. This way you don't need to remember nearly as many libraries/variables/function names, and also the function itself becomes its own description.

That being said, for more production-heavy applications and interfacing with other languages, variable/function naming could be more descriptive :)

kdb+/q is commonly used in the financial world for these types of problems. They have a 32bit for free, and you can ask them about pricing on the 64bit version.

http://kx.com/