Just out of curiosity...
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I stumbled upon this article: The coding language used by the most elite developers in finance | eFinancialCareers[^] I've never heard of K or Q, but apparently programmers of the languages are earning £1k a day in London :omg: Another great earner is OCaml, a language I have heard of because F# was influenced by it, which earns you $200k + a $100k sign-on bonus + a $100-$150k performance bonus. That's $400-$450k in your first year and $300-$350 every year after, or also about $1k a day :wtf: This is a forum with almost 15 million users... Does anyone here know any of these languages (that is, be productive in it)? If you know someone who knows someone (heck, who knows someone) who uses K, Q or OCaml, I'd be happy to know too :laugh: Really, just out of curiosity, not really looking to land a job in finance with any of those languages.
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J, K and Q are described in these Wikipedia Articles: J (programming language) - Wikipedia[^] K (programming language) - Wikipedia[^] Q (programming language from Kx Systems) - Wikipedia[^] J and K are based on APL, which I had the misfortune of studying briefly while doing Computer Science at university 50 years ago.
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Yes, I found out in University that a group of Computer Science researchers from various universities got together and decided on languages and what they would do, by then there had been A, B, and we were on to C. Since then I have seen D, F, and Q and R personally. Don't be surprised if you eventually see a language represented by each letter of the English alphabet. Since you asked, Q is for quantum processor programming, Microsoft came out with Q# a while back to simulate a quantum environment for programmers to work within.
AnotherKen wrote:
Don't be surprised if you eventually see a language represented by each letter of the English alphabet.
I don't doubt it! :omg:
AnotherKen wrote:
Q is for quantum processor programming, Microsoft came out with Q# a while back
Q for quantum makes sense! I guess it'll be a while before we're seeing that language being used in the wild.
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:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: If you think that's unpleasant, definitely don't go and visit [Code Golf Stack Exchange](https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/)
I've seen some code golfs when I first started programming. Now that's something else :laugh:
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I stumbled upon this article: The coding language used by the most elite developers in finance | eFinancialCareers[^] I've never heard of K or Q, but apparently programmers of the languages are earning £1k a day in London :omg: Another great earner is OCaml, a language I have heard of because F# was influenced by it, which earns you $200k + a $100k sign-on bonus + a $100-$150k performance bonus. That's $400-$450k in your first year and $300-$350 every year after, or also about $1k a day :wtf: This is a forum with almost 15 million users... Does anyone here know any of these languages (that is, be productive in it)? If you know someone who knows someone (heck, who knows someone) who uses K, Q or OCaml, I'd be happy to know too :laugh: Really, just out of curiosity, not really looking to land a job in finance with any of those languages.
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K and Q are (IIRC) developments of APL... OCaml is one I do know... I could probably be productive in it (I have been productive in Haskell, and OCaml's not *too* far away from that...). But.... the pressure of fintech? No thanks. I'm a bit old for that...
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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Yes, I found out in University that a group of Computer Science researchers from various universities got together and decided on languages and what they would do, by then there had been A, B, and we were on to C. Since then I have seen D, F, and Q and R personally. Don't be surprised if you eventually see a language represented by each letter of the English alphabet. Since you asked, Q is for quantum processor programming, Microsoft came out with Q# a while back to simulate a quantum environment for programmers to work within.
Just this week, I started investigating a language called V. It takes a simplified language structure and converts it to C, then compiles the C code using the TinyC compiler. It seems that everybody, myself included, has thoughts about a better programming language.
