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Further comments-
I just wanted to stress- I USE TRADESTATION. It IS a great tool, but it must
be applied how it can be- for the correct purpose. Just like anything else-
if it is misapplied- it is bad. There are PLENTY of things that TS is GREAT
for - and plenty that it is not. The trick is to be able to use the right
tool at the right time.
-CD
From: "chris donnan" <chrisdonnan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:Quant Studio
Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 12:23:38 -0500
No offense Max- but spoken like someone who has never had to REALLY program
something non-trivial. Having a robust debug process and tools cannot be
ignored. When you are dealing with a non-trivail applicaiton - with out
logging and debugging (yes- with step-throughs) is NECESSARY. I again can
say this as I manage several enterprise class develpers and am myself a
software developer for some time in large enterprise environments where the
work is non-trivial.
TradeStation simply is not a robust development tool- that is a fact. It is
not debatable that TS is NOT a real development environment. You have no
access to a compiler- you have no REAL api access (TS's api that is) - the
debugger is POOR. There is really no advanced IDE like feature in TS at
all.
I just wanted to make it clear - TS is a great TOOL - but it is far far far
from an enterprise programming environment.
-CD
PS- Again I say - No offense intended.
From: Max Pierson <maxpi_44@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Omega List <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re:Quant Studio
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 19:05:40 -0800 (PST)
It never fails to amaze me that people would want
to single step their code when they have the
visual debugging tool of all debugging tools, the
chart!! Write your code as an indicator and step
through bar by bar and check that it is working!!
Use the Data Window!! Much, much better than
single stepping through code and making
assumptions about what is going on (and blaming
Tradestation when it hiccups)
Max
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....couldn't disagree more. When I have program
in
C, I can at least single
step through the code to see how and where bugs
are occuring. Try that with
TS. It is amazing to me that people can even talk
about a programming
environment without having a debugger to "single
step" through the code. I
can give you five different situations where TS
is simply doing buggy things
(as of TS2000i.)
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