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On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Alex Matulich wrote:
> Mark:
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> >anyway what's the offer for a ts2ki clone?
>
> Y'know, I have actually been tempted to tackle the project. I
> like EL but from the first week I started using TS2Ki last year,
> I noticed several deficiencies crying to be fixed, notably: the
> optimizer limitations (can't optimize my own calculated values), the
> inability to trade multiple issues in a portfolio, and no capability
> of source-level debugging or execution tracing of my own EL code.
>
> I considered starting development of a TS clone using the Java
> language so that it could run on any OS, not just Windows. With the
> Java virtual machine software available for different platforms,
> Java runs almost as fast as compiled native code. It would be open
> source of course. And being Java, the software would be written in
> a more structured way than TradeStation is written, I'll bet. I
> suspect the reason TradeStation updates have been so slow in coming
> is that their source code is too hard to maintain.
>
> Ideally it should accept user code written in either EasyLanguage
> or Java. Folks concerned about security could write their stuff
> in Java and compile it themselves, releasing only the object files
> which anybody could link in, on any platform. Java can also call
> routines written in native code too if needed.
>
> >if one million could be
> >raised amongst us we might could have an open source ts platform.
>
> If I had a million to do this, I'd quit my job, hire a team, and get
> cracking on the project.
Write a plan, I'll help with what I can.
Mike
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