Walter's DConf 2014 Talks - Topics in Finance

[Daniel Davidson]

On Friday, 21 March 2014 at 21:14:15 UTC, TJB wrote:
> Walter,
>
> I see that you will be discussing "High Performance Code Using 
> D" at the 2014 DConf. This will be a very welcomed topic for 
> many of us.  I am a Finance Professor.  I currently teach and 
> do research in computational finance.  Might I suggest that you 
> include some finance (say Monte Carlo options pricing) 
> examples?  If you can get the finance industry interested in D 
> you might see a massive adoption of the language.  Many are 
> desperate for an alternative to C++ in that space.
>
> Just a thought.
>
> Best,
>
> TJB

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.

Thanks
Dan