On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 22:32:52 +0000, 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.
not that anything is forcing someone to update the working compiler. i know some big codebases that still using msvc6 for the exact reason that "knowing bug is better than new bug".
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