Walter's DConf 2014 Talks - Topics in Finance

[TJB]

On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 00:14:11 UTC, Daniel Davidson wrote:
> 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

Dan,

Why a tough sell?  Please explain.

TJB