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Didn't Bob really say it all, folks?
I continue to look for an alternative to TS. Not sure that I will find
anything which will woo away everyone who has devoted at least a partial
career to this cranky marriage, but I, for one, would like a modeling
program or language which
* Can do the important things for which we employ TS
* Is well written and either well supported or well documented (or both!)
There are doubtless other criteria - for me, an important one would be the
option of running under Unix/Linux.
I have mentioned this here, before, and some have responded to me.
There are some interesting candidates out there, and I am investigating
them. Some are very capable - but a question is whether skilled users of TS
could easily step from it to the new system, regardless of ultimate
advantage.
I am compiling info and will publish it sometime this winter (God willing),
and invite comment.
Meantime I continue to struggle to learn the quirks of TS.
A merry Christmas to those noble warriors who share their victories with us!
Jim Wixson
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Fulks [mailto:bfulks@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, 16 December, 2001 08:42
To: Mike Eggleston
Cc: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: variable declarations within EL?
Very little about how TradeStation works internally is published. I am not
even sure the staff now left in the company even know...[I feel sure they do
not - jw]
About the only way to find out if, and how, something works is to run tests
and see what happens. Users on email lists such as this run such tests all
the time and share their findings.
Some of the former Omega staff, such as Sam Tennis, who knew how it worked
in days past, are on this list and sometimes help out.
If you want a "real" programming language with documentation, modern
debugging facilities, etc., you need to look elsewhere. Frustrating, I know,
but true.
One wise user once wrote that probably 95% of the programs that TradeStation
users write do not run the way the user intended and they never know it.
Technical integrity has never been a priority with the Omega management and
probably never will be. Most of us have long-ago given up on trying to get
fixes out of the company and are just trying to get our programs to work the
way we want with the software we now have.
Bob Fulks
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