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The "Why" is missing in this article. Anyone care to comment?
What I would like to know is why didn't they simply license it to them?
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When I was interviewing at GS we talked about Python vs Slang and several of the interviewers mentioned the biggest problem with slang was the lack of toolkit (good debuggers, IDE, etc.).
It's also worth noting that the SEC thinks python is a good language for specing ABS. http://kelloggfinance.wordpress.com/2010/04/08/the-sec-gets-...
"Snake" in Dutch ... how appropriate.
"Hose" in Swedish, which I also found amusing. :) Also, S-lang is the name of at least one well-known programming language, it's used to script the jed editor among other things. See http://www.jedsoft.org/slang/ .
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True - joel kaplan's group in FID was the source iirc.
didn't stop every fucking aurora machine from bitching about missing kaplgallant though. heh.
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didn't stop every fucking aurora machine from bitching about missing kaplgallant though. heh.
Well just in case you wanna cry into your beer over that font - you can get it here for old times sake. http://www.aplusdev.org/Download/x11fonts.tar.gz
Unrelated to the story (looking at the stock price) Why would GS be worth $154 a share when they're paying dividends of $.35 a share? Of course I guess the last time Apple paid a dividend was 1995, and they're trading at $259 a share.
Slang is a proprietory language developed by GS, it's been around for ~15 years I think. If I remember correctly they have a development/analysis environment called SecDB in which all coding is done with Slang. All their modelling, pricing and risking is done in SecDB across all asset classes so it's pretty widely embedded.
I've looked at Slang a bit. It's an interpreted dataflow language running on an in-memory database called SecDB. Untyped, Pascal-ish, single-threaded, and poor support for namespaces. Like a spreadsheet, it only needs to recompute the subgraph that has changed. It was probably innovative 25 years ago (I think it came out mid-80s), but today you could write Java code and use memoization aggressively to speed things up…
Slang is a proprietory language developed by GS, it's been around for ~15 years I think. If I remember correctly they have a development/analysis environment called SecDB in which all coding is done with Slang. All their modelling, pricing and risking is done in SecDB across all asset classes so it's pretty widely embedded.
I've looked at Slang a bit. It's an interpreted dataflow language running on an in-memory database called SecDB. Untyped, Pascal-ish, single-threaded, and poor support for namespaces. Like a spreadsheet, it only needs to recompute the subgraph that has changed. It was probably innovative 25 years ago (I think it came out mid-80s), but today you could write Java code and use memoization aggressively to speed things up…
Yes that's right - and that is a key feature for GS - they need to be able to revalue huge trading books ~ real time. (Most other banks estimate impact of intraday moves, and do a re-price overnight in batch)
I thought Slang was a static subset Smalltalk used to implement virtual machines, like PreScheme (Scheme48) and Restricted Python (PyPy).