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On May 30, 2007, at 8:14 PM, Mike Barna wrote:
Interesting issue however with the
overall proliferation of code
translators from any language into any
other language. Endpoint?
I'm gaining more and more respect for EasyLanguage as I translate
stuff. I think it's a fine language for trading, concise and to the
point. Just try translating the following to see what I mean:
input: x(100);
sell 200 next bar at x stop;
What you get is lots and lots of what I would call boilerplate code.
It takes your focus away from your trading objectives and points you
straight towards properties, methods, object allocation, etc. etc.
etc. Not what you would want when trying to verify if a given trading
idea is valid.
What people are realizing, I suspect, is that the language is fine
but the platform is, at times, flawed. This is why you see folks
linking TradeStation to NinjaTrader via a DLL for execution. This is
just a hunch, of course, please feel free to add or take away.
I don't see traders migrating wholesale to Java, C# or even VB.NET. I
don't believe your average trader should be messing around with
classes, inheritance, object allocation, etc. I'm therefore
advocating prototyping in EasyLanguage and deploying on NinjaTrader
or, in the future, other similar platforms.
This is also why I will likely come up with massive optimization and
multi-symbol trading offerings in the future. Now that I can
translate EasyLanguage and understand the meaning of any given piece
of code, I can correct and optimize whatever is necessary.
Thanks, Joel
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