Kona released: Open source K3.2 [screencast]

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Post by kevinlawler » Thu, Sep 02, 2010, 8:22 PM UTC

Kona released: Open source K3.2 [screencast]
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Post by overkill28 » Fri, Sep 03, 2010, 12:28 AM UTC

Nice! anyone who's worked on wall street has seen how much people pay for K

Re: Kona released: Open source K3.2 [screencast]

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Post by kevinlawler » Fri, Sep 03, 2010, 12:50 AM UTC

overkill28 wrote: post #2

Nice! anyone who's worked on wall street has seen how much people pay for K

K is a great opportunity for anyone looking to work in finance and technology. The programmers are in exceptionally high demand. This project will make it easier to become proficient in K. Anyone looking to branch into this area now has an interpreter and the corresponding source, which wasn't available before.

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Post by spacebump » Fri, Sep 03, 2010, 1:54 AM UTC

Very cool. This seems like quite a project.

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Post by jthiel » Fri, Sep 03, 2010, 2:00 AM UTC

I use pari/gp to study number theory, and it seems like Kona could easily be used to do the kinds of statistical analysis I need quickly and easily. Awesome!

Re: Kona released: Open source K3.2 [screencast]

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Post by chrisaycock » Fri, Sep 03, 2010, 3:13 AM UTC

Now I'm waiting for screencast of sudoku:

http://thesweeheng.wordpress.com/2008/11/30/more-sudoku-solv...

or game of life:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4

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Post by deskamess » Fri, Sep 03, 2010, 2:43 PM UTC

kevinlawler wrote: post #3

overkill28 wrote: post #2

Nice! anyone who's worked on wall street has seen how much people pay for K

K is a great opportunity for anyone looking to work in finance and technology. The programmers are in exceptionally high demand. This project will make it easier to become proficient in K. Anyone looking to branch into this area now has an interpreter and the corresponding source, which wasn't available before.

Looks clean and succinct. Is there a forum/google-group that one can join to learn more about Kona?

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Post by kguru » Fri, Sep 03, 2010, 4:03 PM UTC

Why bother? Kx give away their latest version. Don't you have any original ideas?

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Post by chrisaycock » Fri, Sep 03, 2010, 4:05 PM UTC

deskamess wrote: post #7

kevinlawler wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

K is a great opportunity for anyone looking to work in finance and technology. The programmers are in exceptionally high demand. This project will make it easier to become proficient in K. Anyone looking to branch into this area now has an interpreter and the corresponding source, which wasn't available before.

Looks clean and succinct. Is there a forum/google-group that one can join to learn more about Kona?

The company that originally made the "k" language (Kx Systems) has a Google group:

http://groups.google.com/group/personal-kdbplus

That one is mostly for "q", a proprietary follow-up language.

There's also the "k idioms", which are always educational:

http://kx.com/technical/contribs/eugene/kidioms.html

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Post by xkrebstarx » Sat, Sep 04, 2010, 2:43 AM UTC

overkill28 wrote: post #2

Nice! anyone who's worked on wall street has seen how much people pay for K

Very true. That's because only good programmers can code it.