Walter's DConf 2014 Talks - Topics in Finance

[aldanor via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 23 December 2014 at 07:51:18 UTC, Oren Tirosh wrote:
> On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 12:06:37 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
>> On Sat, 2014-03-22 at 00:14 +0000, Daniel Davidson wrote:
>> […]
>>> Maybe a good starting point would be to port some of QuantLib 
>>> and see how the performance compares. In High Frequency 
>>> Trading I think D would be a tough sell, unfortunately.
>>
>> I would certainly agree that (at least initially) pitching D 
>> against the Excel/Python/R/Julia/Mathematica is an easier 
>> fight. The question is how to convince someone to take the 
>> first step.
>
> In that case, a good start might be a D kernel for 
> IPython/Jupyter. Seeing an interactive D REPL session inside a 
> notebook should make a pretty convincing demo.

That's an interesting idea, how would you approach it though with 
a compiled non-functional language? Maybe in the same way the 
%%cython magic is done?