Pitching an investment bank on using D for their bond analytics

[lobo via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 15 April 2015 at 22:32:53 UTC, 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.

In the last 2 years each breaking change I've encountered has 
been to close holes where latent bugs may lurk ... and often were 
lurking!

I welcome these breaking changes in production code.

bye,
lobo