Pitching an investment bank on using D for their bond analytics

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d]

On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 22:32:52 +0000, Kapps wrote:

> 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.

not that anything is forcing someone to update the working compiler. i 
know some big codebases that still using msvc6 for the exact reason that 
"knowing bug is better than new bug".
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