Re: Scripting language takes a silicon turn

[Stephen Kellett <lua@...>]

In message 
<a542ea610601260530g4f1839c8k2bfb011a6b9e7417@mail.gmail.com>, Boyko 
Bantchev <boykobb@gmail.com> writes
> Well, K seems to have already accumulated some users, or at least
> customers :)  Look at their customer list at http://kx.com .

I bumped into a gentleman at a Microsoft conference on security a couple 
of years ago. He was raving about K - he knew the man that created 'K'. 
He said it was basically banks and investment people that were into it - 
K is so fast you could do realtime stock correlation and so on, 
apparently all other languages were too slow - that was his line on it.

We got onto the subject of K after talking about APL being read only - 
and he just lit up about K. Which does seem very read only. I have a 
vague memory that the creator of K had a hand in APL but that may be my 
memory playing tricks on me.

No surprise at them when I visit the website that the list of customers 
are all banks, investment houses and so on.

Stephen
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