Pitching an investment bank on using D for their bond analytics

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 15/04/2015 12:08 a.m., D Denizen since a year wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have been here a year or so, and trust you will forgive my posting
> pseudonymously on this occasion.  If you guess who it is, please be kind
> enough not to say for now.
>
> A friend has been invited to be a consultant for an investment bank that
> would like to build a set of analytics for fixed income products.  The
> team is currently quite small - about 5 C++ developers - and the idea is
> to start with a proof of concept and then build on it as there is
> further buy-in from the business.
>
> Having been using D for a year or so, I am pretty comfortable that it
> can do the job, and likely much better than the C++ route for all the
> normal reasons.  I haven't experience of using D in a proper enterprise
> environment, but I think this group might be open to trying D and that I
> might be at least part-time involved.
>
> I also have little experience in getting across the merits of this
> technology to people very used to C++, and so I have not yet built up a
> standard set of answers to the normal objections to 'buying' that will
> crop up in any situation of this sort.
>
> So I am interested in:
>
> - what are the things to emphasize in building the case for trying D?
> the most effective factors that persuade people are not identical with
> the technically strongest reasons, because often one needs to see it
> before one gets it.
>
> - what are the likely pitfalls in the early days?
>
> - what are potential factors that might make D a bad choice in this
> scenario?  I would like to use D certainly - but it is of course much
> more important that the client gets the best result, however it is done.
>
> - am I right in thinking C++ integration more or less works, except
> instantiating C++ templates from D?  what are the gotchas?
>
> (I appreciate there is not so much to go on, and much depends on
> specific factors).  But any quick thoughts and experiences would be very
> welcome.

Just a thought, try getting them to use D for prototyping. Worse case 
they will play around with D before settling on e.g. c++. Best case 
scenario they'll move it into production.