From: Patrik Sundberg Date: 2002-04-11T15:53:53+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby and finance On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 06:34:35AM +0900, Chris wrote: > In article <20020410202747.GA14707@raquel.radiac.mine.nu>, > Patrik Sundberg wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > After a posting by Luigi Ballabio about Ruby bindings for QuantLib I got > > curious about if more people are using ruby for financial tasks. Are there any > > finance-related ruby libraries etc? > > > > I would like an equal to perls Finance::Quotes for example. I think ruby could > > be a very good tool for financial models and quantitative finance in general. > > Any other finance interested ruby-programmers out there? > > It's kind of funny that I just mentioned Eiffel in another post. As I > understand it, Eiffel is quite popular among European financial > institutions, and coming from Ruby, I don't think it'd be that hard to > learn, unless you really don't like statically-typed languages. i'm fine with most languages, but i think ruby have some advantages. things i don't know squat about though is exactly what type of computing power is used by various mathematical finance models, how large datasets one uses and so on. i would be interested to know if ruby performance wise would be up to the task. even if pure ruby simulations etc wouldn't be realistic i think using ruby as a kind of 'UI' for other stuff like QuantLib would have some rather nice effects. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------. Patrik Sundberg Address: Rydsv�gen 100C, 584 31 Link�ping, Sweden | Email: ps@raditex.se || ps@radiac.mine.nu | Phone: +46 13 178567 || +46 707 602240 | .---> Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering student | |-----> Master of Science in Business Administration and Economics student | |-------> UNIX/Programming consultant | `--------------------------------------------------------------------------'