Pitching an investment bank on using D for their bond analytics

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On Tuesday, 14 April 2015 at 12:08:54 UTC, D Denizen since a year 
wrote:
>
> 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.

One of the biggest issues I can think of would be code breakage. 
While we're the point where most compiler updates no longer break 
my code, if you expect to use a codebase from 2 years ago without 
having to update your code, you'll be disappointed.