On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai < abpil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai < > abpil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Noufal Ibrahim <nou...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai > >> <abpil...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > SEC has found a way to set right those marauding > >> > bankers on Wall street by considering the use > >> > of programming languages to specify legal requirements. > >> > And the language of choice ? - Python! > >> > > >> > > >> > http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/04/19/2114251/SEC-Proposes-Wall-Street-Transparency-Via-Python > >> > > >> > If this becomes law, then I suppose there will be > Whoa! what becomes law ? From what i can understand it primarily refers to the preferred mechanism of documenting complex waterfall provisions, in fiscal projections. >> > lot of Python programmer openings in wall street and > >> > could also create Python jobs in the services sector > >> > here once these requirements gets outsourced (which > >> > they will). Folks, prepare your CVs! :-)[..] > For what ? Are we getting far too ahead of ourselves. Any ballpark quantification of "lot of Python programmer openings" ? This is in the field of fiscal modeling, not actual business applications (to the extent that they are often but not necessarily distinct >> > >> Apart from the job creation and stuff, it'd be an interesting project > >> to make a programming language that's used to specify legal > >> requirements. If it takes off, the entire 'business rules' setup I > >> imagine will be affected. > >> > > I don't see a normal business transaction processing runtime getting influenced particularly. Python is a candidate for replacing what otherwise is likely to be done through excel spreadsheets and then resummarised using English. > > > > If you don't think that as a huge business opportunity, I wonder > > what kind of Python consultant you are ;-) > > > > Tweeters, please tweet this if you already haven't. Let us drive > some traffic to python dot org which apparently is already > seeing increased traffic since this hit /. (The "Slashdot effect" maybe ?) > > I see this as a good boost for the language's popularity, if nothing > else. > > Are we getting way ahead by reading too much into this ? -- -------------------------------------------------------- blog: http://blog.dhananjaynene.com twitter: http://twitter.com/dnene _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers