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Well,
This is debateable- do you know any big companies auto-trading with
tradestation? I do not, however I DO ABSOLUTELY know of companies trading
ots of real $ with a 'real' programming language - c++ mostly. Once you get
to a certin level of complexity you NEED a more robust set of management,
source, change management, bug tracking etc. This CANNOT happen in a
scripting language (especially EL). I have developed and manage enterprise
class sets of developers using scripting and strong programming languages
etc. You need bigger class support all around for enterprise class trading.
I have programmed in many languages- many languages have better reusability
mechanisms than perl in every area, most specifically Java and C#. Perl is
no better than any of this other stuff- what I am hearing - is that you know
perl a bit and wish that you could use it to trade with.
http://www.activestate.com/Corporate/Initiatives/NET/Research.html?_x=1
This is a soon to come perl .net implementation. ANY .net language willl
work w/ SQ.
Also, more money comes from being able to adapt etc yes, but it also only
comes reliably with a robust set of standards- mechanisms, checks and
balances that only come from a more structured environment. This is of
course all applicable to autotrading, not so much to descretionary trading.
From: Sven Napolean Montessori <snm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: snm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: QuantStudio demo available
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 07:20:11 -0800 (PST)
i mean full programming language has yet to prove an advantage over
scripting languages when it comes to profitability in trading. more
difficult does not mean more money.
mb
Yes, I'm surprised they didn't embed a perl engine. Perl is fairly
readable, has a huge library of modules capable of doing anything a
"full programming language" might. I've seen many queries on this
list for abilities that exist in CPAN (the perl archive) and have
wondered why various trading platforms have missed a cheap way to
provide services to the trader beyond anything else on the market
today.
"more money' comes from being able to adapt, adapting is fast when a
trader can draw upon a large selection of building blocks and put them
together fast. Making new perl routines has always been fast for me,
even when I was first starting out.
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