Walter's DConf 2014 Talks - Topics in Finance

[Oren Tirosh via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 12:06:37 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-03-22 at 00:14 +0000, Daniel Davidson wrote:
> […]
>> 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.
>
> I would certainly agree that (at least initially) pitching D 
> against the Excel/Python/R/Julia/Mathematica is an easier 
> fight. The question is how to convince someone to take the 
> first step.

In that case, a good start might be a D kernel for 
IPython/Jupyter. Seeing an interactive D REPL session inside a 
notebook should make a pretty convincing demo.