On Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 08:31:09 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
Financial organizations generally want all their language infrastructure for free (GCC, Python, Eclipse) anything they write themselves is treated as asset and so theirs not for anyone else.
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That leads to them using Java, Scala, C++, C# and Python. Which they do.
so let 'em use those languages. they will not return anything, thus i see no reason to care about their bussiness needs. i've never seen "this language is used in banking" to be used as the main reason for choosing one language over another (outside the banking, of course ;-).
if they want to contribute and support their contribution — great, they can. but if they want somebody to do the work for 'em for free... two words, seven letters.
