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Hi everybody!A quick, maybe strange , question:If you ask someone working in an hedge fund "Have you ever heard or used Q /KDB+ ?"And he, then, answers: "No, we don't use it. We use Octave."Do you think he actually knows about Q /KDB+, or not?Because it would have been an OK answer to the question: "Have you ever heard or used MatLab or Mathematica?"Isn't Q /KDB+ a database primarly? And not a numerical computing environment (like MatLab, Mathematica and Octave)?Thanks

Yes but db's primary use is toward analysis.He's saying the firm has built around octave and their not going to want to transition to another language environment

thank you!

I dont think he knows anything about kdb+/q.And yes you can use kdb+ both as a db and as a numerical computing environment.Kim