<t>It seems this discussion is going in circles. I also feel a bias towards C++ (especially its windows cousins) by most of posters here. Allow me to try to change this discussion around and ask what exactly is the future that we are debating? Are we trying to predict what a sophisticated Quant from...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: farmerQuoteOriginally posted by: ellenI may not be reading you correctly, but that kind of does not make much sense unless you in the business of writing browser plug-ins; which may deserve its own topic.Flash and Java are highly programmable plugins, but you could writ...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: farmerQuoteOriginally posted by: ellenStill not clear about your point.If you are concerned about flash adaptability, just check the statsMy point is that Flash is a browser plugin - a dll which makes use of the browser display and user events. You can write your own pl...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: exneratunriskHi msperlin,if you are in an academic institution having Mathematica, you should have access to webMathematica Amateur (wich is free, if your application service is accessible without any barriers).The tool is quite comfortable for what I think you have in ...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: gustavowolfHi all,following on my mails of Monday, I was told that given that the covariance matrix is so unstable (*), portfolio managers did not use models of the CAPM type.So my question is: what is the state of the art of the quantitative methodology to construct an...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: farmerFlash is a browser plugin. It comes as an ActiveX control for IE on Windows, as a Mozilla plugin for Firefox and other browsers on Windows, and has another version for Mac and Linux. You can deliver any program that runs on any computer inside a browser on that co...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: msperlinQuoteOriginally posted by: misiti3780im interested in writing a piece of software which can pull every piece of stock data from yahoo.i would also like to be able to run it five days a week to get the updates after the close.i havnt started writing the code yet ...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnQuoteWill be nice to know what people use for C++ environment today... that will give us a better take on its future. Most of the people I know use VS2005 and Excel 2003. But with new developments in h/w I reckon that Linux interoperability will be important. ...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: dirtydroogQuoteOriginally posted by: ellenEclipse + CDT? J++ died a miserable death because people realised MS tried to release a proprietary form of the Java language which wasn't portable -> defeating the whole purpose of the language. The IDE had nothing to do with i...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: Traden4AlphaQuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnQuote Seriously, you are asking more of a economic question....i.e. technology will always evolve ...Nope, I am not asking an economic question; this is a software language thread and I was referring to very specific issu...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnOne of the shortcomings I find with C++ in finance apps (a lot of which is numerical) is the lack of good support for functional programming.So, I think the language is not the problem but the software paradigm is more important. Unfortunately, C#, Java and C+...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnQuotethat only technologies today that will survive outside of the textbooks will be the ones that are built to deliver software for the masses.Ok, here's a question. Which language drives the following appliances for the 'masses' (your words);pacemakersmedica...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnQuoteSo, very respectively, what is your take on 'Future Prospects of C++ in Quant Finance’?My take is that there is no Silver Bullet, and that there is no panacea. C++, C#, Java, VBA will all exist for some time to come. C++ is the best language for computati...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: dirtydroogQuoteOriginally posted by: ellenC++ is great and powerful language, but performance and scalability that C++ was giving over other high level languages will become ignorable as the amount of computing power and memory options increase every year. The value of ...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnQuoteOriginally posted by: ellenC++ is great and powerful language, but performance and scalability that C++ was giving over other high level languages will become ignorable as the amount of computing power and memory options increase every year. The value of ...