[BangPypers] Wall street may embrace Python

[Rajeev J Sebastian]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang <sirtaj at sirtaj.net> wrote:
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> On 26-Apr-10, at 4:47 PM, Rajeev J Sebastian wrote:
> [snip]
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>> With all due respect, I disagree that a DSL is useful for this
>> purpose. In fact, I would disagree with DSLs in most cases, especially
>> if its supposed to be used for programming. The reason for this is
>> that creating a good language is much more harder than creating a
>> language, and such efforts tend to end up with crappy languages.
>>
>
> Your concern is valid, but I think you are underestimating the amount of
> effort already being put into creating platform-neutral DSLs for business,
> law and finance.

I'm not underestimating it at all ... just ranting that it does happen
as often as it does, when it shouldn't :P I'm very happy that the SEC
will/may mandate the use of Python for this.

Regards
Rajeev J Sebastian