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This sounds eerily like Bill Gate's "The best is yet to come"
speech. I can't make development decisions based on promises.
I've seen too many promises in the Microsoft world fade into
vapour.
If COM and MFC are soon to be obsolete then fine. That doesn't
effect Linux implementations. I still say C++ is a good choice
for Linux based apps.
- John
-----Original Message-----
From: M. Simms [mailto:prosys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 10:37 AM
To: trader@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: John Brzezicki
Subject: RE: Freemarket
Simply because the world is tired of complex, inflexible, flaky software
ridden by pointer and memory management problems.....all endemic to C++.
The last great C++ trading platform was TS2000i by Omega.
If C++ is so great, why didn't they just "port" it to Linux ?
Reason: Totally reliant on MFC(soon-to-be-obsolete) and
COM(soon-to-be-obsolete).
Java got a bad rap because of earlier JDK 1.1 and 1.2 problems.....and Swing
(their version of MFC) has been unstable because of it's complexity.
All of this has changed with JDK 1.3....a vast improvement.
...and wait till next year !
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trader at Computation.org [mailto:trader@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 6:27 PM
> To: prosys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Freemarket
>
>
>
> Why would it be obsolete? Just because it doesn't conform
> to Microsoft's COM architecture or integrates with .NET?
> Also, the move to Java isn't necessarily a good thing.
> Java has its performance and reliability problems.
>
> C++ on Linux sounds like a good platform-neutral approach
> that will scale to many UNix varients.
>
> My only concern is compatiblity with data sources.
>
> - John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: M. Simms [mailto:prosys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 11:18 AM
> To: Ed Winters
> Cc: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Freemarket
>
>
> BIG MISTAKE going to C++ !!!
> Microsoft is dropping it in favor of C-sharp. And, of course, the entire
> world is moving towards Java.
>
> Microsoft is also dropping COM in favor of .NET architecture.
>
> By the time this free source program is in beta,
> it will be totally obsolete.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ed Winters [mailto:e.winters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2000 8:30 PM
> > To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Freemarket
> >
> >
> > This information is posted on the home page at
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/freemarket/
> >
> > "A package for perfoming technical analysis on stock market data
> > consisting of data and indicator servers communicating through corba
> > to clients for gui charting, etc. Real time streaming quotes and an
> > EasyLanguage compatible indicator server included.
> >
> > Development Status: 2 - Pre-Alpha
> > Environment: X11 Applications
> > Intended Audience: Developers, End Users/Desktop
> > License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
> > Operating System: Linux
> > Programming Language: C++
> > Topic: Investment"
> >
> > The version of Freemarket that I downloaded from Sourceforge is
> > written in c++ as stated on their home page. Freemarket uses the qt
> > graphics package which is available without charge for Linux, and has
> > souce code available in c++ for compilation on other platforms. It
> > makes use of mysql as a database which is also available.
> >
> > I did not see Python in any of these downloaded tar files. Can you
> > point me to the Python code?
> >
>
>
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