|
PureBytes Links
Trading Reference Links
|
Pierre,
One of the best things Omega could do to make EL better would to be to have better
debugging facilities. I can't think of any other language on a PC today that does
not allow for a trace/stepping through code and a display of variable values. If
you could do this, you could then figure out what TS and EL is doing. Having a
print statement as the only debugging tools is how I learned to code in the early
70's. The other thing that is not very reasurring, is the fact that if you look
in online help you will find functios that are not documented anywhere. They are
listed, but not documented. Also, a snipit of code showing how it is used and
called would also go a long way. And you know Omega must have some of this code
available, or else that means they never tested the new functions.
Orphelin@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
>
> Unfortunately, things are not so simple and mastering a programming language
> is not included in any book.
>
> Programming is easy, even with EL, even if not enough documented.
>
> What is difficult is to master your thinking when programming something.
> The language is the support, the idea the core, and the result is your work.
>
> I personally never followed programming courses but always found the answer by
> reflection.
> So, I have trainded my brain and not my EL knowledge (EL knowledge comes as
> you progress).
> The hardest the work at the beginning, the best the result a
> h to know and all is in the
> documentation, with a few exceptions.
>
> I do not like programming very much, but I like to solve problems.
> Programming language is one modern and powerful mean to do this.
> But without your own ability that you may increase by practice, no book, no
> secret documentation will help you very much. The result could be even worse
> if you take the habit to rely on external sources and to not find a benefit in
> training your brain.
>
> What was very pleasant for me with TS Express was the "Stump the programmer "
> problem posted in each issue.
> (Follow the shortest code solution to a given problem).
> Even if I have been the winner a lot of time, this enforced me to find tricks
> that I would not have thought about before. Because I needed it to beat the
> challengers (if any).
> This is a true manner to progress.
> And a robust one.
> Once you have achieved this goal, things becomes more simple.
>
> Even the Sirtrade97 breakthought reurofuzzy software has been evolved with
> this principle in mind (but I was not alone to do this).
> We have succeded to do something that is unavailable elsewhere, without
> anything else than our experience,and the standard TS documentation. And the
> thing is even able to retrain realtime during the market within TradeStation,
> without crashing and without hooking too much CPU time.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Pierre Orphelin
> www.sirtrade.com
> (free evaluation version to download)
|