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petercooper on Aug 7, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: IronRuby Manager Leaves Microsoft

C++ and C# are big deals in the financial industry, but remember that programmer time is a lot more expensive than hardware time, and there could be wins to be had in extremely rapid development.

ruang on Aug 7, 2010 [–]

Good point, hadn't thought of that. A dynamic scripting language could be useful for backtesting as opposed to execution.

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