K Alive
K
KindProgramming language
Appeared1993
StatusAlive
CreatorArthur Whitney / Kx
FamilyAPL
Sourcecode.kx.com ↗
Whitney's terse vector language inside kdb+ — the finance world's secret weapon, where a trading model fits on an index card.
1960198020002020
Descended from APL
Created by Arthur Whitney
Arthur Whitney's k (1993) — the APL-descended array language — is the secret weapon of finance: terse, fast, and the engine behind kdb+, the time-series database that runs Wall Street.\n\nWhitney's own syntax is famously unreadable to outsiders; the performance is undeniable.