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Yes, I think we can agree that Mark has stopped complaining. He has no more
time to complain because he is busy producing!
You are quite correct... VB is a terrible language for trading. I have
looked closely at object-oriented languages for scientific computing. They
are terrible for this purpose. FORTRAN (now FORTRAN 90) is still the
language preferred by engineers and scientists (and for good reason).
Talk to a VB programmer about mathematical functions and they will look at
you in disbelief. The younger ones do not even understand quite what you're
talking about. You want to know what VB programmers want to talk about?
Databases.... not the analysis of them, but about the creation, storage,
and retrieval of data. They know little or nothing about the analysis of
data.
The Omega Man
----- Original Message -----
From: pierre.orphelin <pierre.orphelin@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Omega list <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 19, 1999 5:12 PM
Subject: Re: traderware X release date
-----Message d'origine-----
De : The Omega Man <editorial@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
À : Mark Brown <markbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; pierre.orphelin
<pierre.orphelin@xxxxxxxxxx>; Omega list <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date : samedi 19 juin 1999 22:54
Objet : Re: traderware X release date
>
>I would start getting nervous if I were you, Pierre.
>
>Not because VB is the perfect programming language for scientific
computing;
>not because wizards will eliminate the need for traders to solve complex
>problems; not because VB is now a more widely used language than EL and
>Pascal combined. No, not for any of these reasons.
>
>I would start getting nervous for one reason and one reason only: because
>Mark Brown has stopped complaining and started producing. The impotent
>complainer can be ignored. The competitive producer cannot be.
>
>
>The Omega Man
>
Guess that he will continue to complain AND produce ?
That's aside, I hate VB as a trading programming language.
I hate unnecessary complexity yielding to write 5 lines of code when I can
do the same with one EL line.
Rgds
-Pierre Orphelin
Représentant exclusif de Omega Research en France.
web: http://www.sirtrade.com
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