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0 pointsrak15071y ago0 comments

I don't know what you mean by the q array operations being defined in the standard library. Yes there are things defined in .q, but they're normally thin wrappers over k which has array operations built in.

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sudosysgen1y ago

I don't consider an interpreted language having operations "built-in" be significantly different from a compiled language having basic array operations in the stdlib or calling a compiled language.

rak1507OP1y ago

Hmm, why not? Using K or a similar array language is a very different experience to using an array library like numpy.

sudosysgen1y ago

It is syntactically different, not semantically different. If you gave me any reasonable code in k/q I'm pretty confident I could write semantically identical Julia and/or numpy code.

In fact I've seen interop between q and numpy. The two mesh well together. The differences are aesthetic more than anything else.

rak1507OP1y ago

There are semantic differences too with a lot of the primitives that are hard to replicate exactly in Julia or numpy. That's without mentioning the stuff like tables and IPC, which things like pandas/polars/etc don't really come close to in ergonomics, to me anyway.

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sudosysgen1y ago

I don't consider an interpreted language having operations "built-in" be significantly different from a compiled language having basic array operations in the stdlib or calling a compiled language.

rak1507OP1y ago

Hmm, why not? Using K or a similar array language is a very different experience to using an array library like numpy.

sudosysgen1y ago

It is syntactically different, not semantically different. If you gave me any reasonable code in k/q I'm pretty confident I could write semantically identical Julia and/or numpy code.

In fact I've seen interop between q and numpy. The two mesh well together. The differences are aesthetic more than anything else.

rak1507OP1y ago

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