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Re: Python in financial services

Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Date 2014-08-12 12:05 -0700
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Subject Re: Python in financial services
From Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>

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On Wednesday, August 13, 2014 12:24:12 AM UTC+5:30, Denis McMahon wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 10:48:14 -0700, Rustom Mody wrote:

> > However those folks have thousands of lines of C/C++ which they are
> > porting to python.

> That begs the question: Why?

> Seriously, I'd like to know what benefits they expect to achieve by doing 
> so.

Heh!
I asked more or less that.
Was told: "We want it!"

I gather its to do with "agility" -- faster time to incorporate and
integrate new logic into code etc.

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Python in financial services Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-08-12 00:33 -0700
  Re: Python in financial services Johann Hibschman <jhibschman@gmail.com> - 2014-08-12 11:35 -0400
    Re: Python in financial services Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-08-12 10:44 -0700
  Re: Python in financial services Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-08-12 15:50 +0000
    Re: Python in financial services Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-08-12 10:48 -0700
      Re: Python in financial services Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-08-12 18:54 +0000
        Re: Python in financial services Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-08-12 12:05 -0700
  Re: Python in financial services Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-08-12 17:07 -0400
  Re: Python in financial services wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-08-12 23:43 -0700
    Re: Python in financial services Laurent Pointal <laurent.pointal@laposte.net> - 2014-08-19 18:35 +0200
      Re: Python in financial services Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-08-19 17:59 -0400
      Re: Python in financial services Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-08-20 00:00 +0100

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