From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-11-23T17:29:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs Java vs c++

Guido Sohne wrote:
> For finance programming, am not so sure. You may want to make sure you 
> are
> good with R/Matlab and Mathematica. 
R if you want free software, Matlab or Mathematica if the boss is buying. :)

> Or you may want to learn APL, if you
> want to be an arcane master dazzling the operator-overloading gang 
> (both pro
> and con sides) with your sheer conciseness and power. Well, I don't know
> APL, but that is how I imagine it to be. All kinds of crazy symbols, 
> where
> you need a *special* keyboard.
Do finance types still use APL? I thought Matlab and Mathematica had 
pretty much supplanted APL and its successors. I think you can still buy 
a J license, though, and there is a fairly inactive open source APL-ish 
package called A+ (aplus in Debian).

Actually, though, I think APL is the solution to global warming. For one 
thing, you can write the climate model in one line of code, which uses 
much less electricity than the hundreds of lines of FORTRAN the other 
models use.

<ducking>

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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, FBG, AB, PTA, PGS, MS, MNLP, NST, ACMC(P)
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