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by 5jt 3355 days ago
While I’m learning kdb+, Dyalog remains my favourite language for hacking and is likely to remain so for much of the publishing work I do, because of its solid UTF-8 support.

Iverson was on to something with his iterators. I am still getting insights decades later. When I use control structures like for-loops (even in APL) it feels like talking with my thumb in mouth.

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Can you go into more details please? How's your experience with kdb+?