Re: [BangPypers] Wall street may embrace Python

2010-04-26 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Monday 26 Apr 2010 5:52:49 pm Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: > > And FWIW - no, I didn't read the 667 page PDF :) > > I downloaded it and went through it, counting the # of times Python > is mentioned as an exercise . It is not a joke and Python is mentioned > not only in page 1, but in pages

Re: [BangPypers] python supports frameworks ?

2010-04-26 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tuesday 27 Apr 2010 12:17:36 am Manish Sinha wrote: > Just like Noufal said - Read a little more on templating. Even python > has templating. I can't say about the best ones as I don't have much > experience in Python web development. > cheetah, jinja, django templating, and hundreds more --

Re: [BangPypers] python supports frameworks ?

2010-04-26 Thread Manish Sinha
On 4/26/2010 7:53 AM, jaya kumar wrote: when we using php we can embedded the code of html, and java script and mysql bcoz it supports mulit language I would like to answer to this. You don't embed html and javascript in php code. Right? Let me explain in dead simple language: Javascript,

Re: [BangPypers] Wall street may embrace Python

2010-04-26 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Dhananjay Nene wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves >wrote: > > > On Monday 26 Apr 2010 4:53:05 pm Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Dhananjay Nene > > > wrote: > > > [..] > > > > > > > Apologies at persisting in

Re: [BangPypers] Wall street may embrace Python

2010-04-26 Thread Asokan Pichai
On 26 April 2010 16:44, Dhananjay Nene wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai < > abpil...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Dhananjay Nene > >wrote: >> >> > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang > > >wrote: >> >> > This is not a deal

Re: [BangPypers] Wall street may embrace Python

2010-04-26 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On 26-Apr-10, at 5:30 PM, Dhananjay Nene wrote: [snip] Taj, the main issue isn't whether standardisation necessary for DSLs is feasible - but the sheer amount of effort, time, political bickerings, and heat that accompanies it. If one uses python we save that entire diversion which if carri

Re: [BangPypers] Wall street may embrace Python

2010-04-26 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Dhananjay Nene wrote: [..] > And FWIW - no, I didn't read the 667 page PDF :) Given that it's a /. link, it's cultural to not RTFA and just pontificate about it (especially if it's a 667 page pdf). :) -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in ___

Re: [BangPypers] Wall street may embrace Python

2010-04-26 Thread Dhananjay Nene
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Monday 26 Apr 2010 4:53:05 pm Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Dhananjay Nene > > wrote: > > [..] > > > > > Apologies at persisting in this .. but I do think it is a very > > > unconventional usecase for prog

Re: [BangPypers] Wall street may embrace Python

2010-04-26 Thread Dhananjay Nene
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote: > > On 26-Apr-10, at 4:47 PM, Rajeev J Sebastian wrote: > [snip] > > With all due respect, I disagree that a DSL is useful for this >> purpose. In fact, I would disagree with DSLs in most cases, especially >> if its supposed to be used for

Re: [BangPypers] Wall street may embrace Python

2010-04-26 Thread Rajeev J Sebastian
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote: > > On 26-Apr-10, at 4:47 PM, Rajeev J Sebastian wrote: > [snip] >> >> With all due respect, I disagree that a DSL is useful for this >> purpose. In fact, I would disagree with DSLs in most cases, especially >> if its supposed to be used fo

Re: [BangPypers] Wall street may embrace Python

2010-04-26 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Monday 26 Apr 2010 4:53:05 pm Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Dhananjay Nene > wrote: > [..] > > > Apologies at persisting in this .. but I do think it is a very > > unconventional usecase for programs to be used as specifications. > this thread is very interesting -

Re: [BangPypers] Wall street may embrace Python

2010-04-26 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On 26-Apr-10, at 4:47 PM, Rajeev J Sebastian wrote: [snip] With all due respect, I disagree that a DSL is useful for this purpose. In fact, I would disagree with DSLs in most cases, especially if its supposed to be used for programming. The reason for this is that creating a good language is muc

Re: [BangPypers] Wall street may embrace Python

2010-04-26 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Dhananjay Nene > wrote: > [..] > > Apologies at persisting in this .. but I do think it is a very > > unconventional usecase for programs to be used as specifications. > You must be kidding. This is one of

Re: [BangPypers] Wall street may embrace Python

2010-04-26 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Dhananjay Nene wrote: [..] > Apologies at persisting in this .. but I do think it is a very > unconventional usecase for programs to be used as specifications. > > The scenario here is that the program (as in the python code) is the means > of communication  - it i

Re: [BangPypers] Wall street may embrace Python

2010-04-26 Thread Rajeev J Sebastian
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote: > > On 26-Apr-10, at 3:46 PM, Dhananjay Nene wrote: > [snip] >> >> I think a DSL based contract (or more precisely waterfall specification) >> may >> be more concise and self descriptive. But that would require a definition >> of >> a new l

Re: [BangPypers] Wall street may embrace Python

2010-04-26 Thread Dhananjay Nene
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai < abpil...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Dhananjay Nene >wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang > >wrote: > > > This is not a deal-breaker of course, and this decision to use Python is > a

Re: [BangPypers] Wall street may embrace Python

2010-04-26 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On 26-Apr-10, at 3:46 PM, Dhananjay Nene wrote: [snip] I think a DSL based contract (or more precisely waterfall specification) may be more concise and self descriptive. But that would require a definition of a new language grammar. However reasoning about the contracts is not in the sco

Re: [BangPypers] Wall street may embrace Python

2010-04-26 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Dhananjay Nene wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang >wrote: > > > > > On 26-Apr-10, at 2:25 PM, Dhananjay Nene wrote: > > [snip] > > > > I do see one strong plus here for Python. That is a very natural > language > >>> > >> for expression (

Re: [BangPypers] Wall street may embrace Python

2010-04-26 Thread Dhananjay Nene
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Dhananjay Nene wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote: > >> >> This is not a deal-breaker of course, and this decision to use Python is >> a sensible, pragmatic one (lots of python programmers around, >> financial/statistical libraries a

Re: [BangPypers] Wall street may embrace Python

2010-04-26 Thread Dhananjay Nene
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote: > > On 26-Apr-10, at 2:25 PM, Dhananjay Nene wrote: > [snip] > > I do see one strong plus here for Python. That is a very natural language >>> >> for expression (as in being one of the most readable programming languages >> for non program

Re: [BangPypers] Wall street may embrace Python

2010-04-26 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote: [..] > Meanwhile, I'll repeat something I say far too much but anyway: domain > knowledge is just as important as programming chops. Folks who want to get > in on the ground floor with these kinds of applications of python should > start le

Re: [BangPypers] Wall street may embrace Python

2010-04-26 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On 26-Apr-10, at 2:25 PM, Dhananjay Nene wrote: [snip] I do see one strong plus here for Python. That is a very natural language for expression (as in being one of the most readable programming languages for non programmers) without resorting to any specific DSLs etc. On the contrary, I th

Re: [BangPypers] Wall street may embrace Python

2010-04-26 Thread Rajeev J Sebastian
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Dhananjay Nene wrote: > Didn't mean to convey that sentiment of hanging onto the words. There's some > good stuff of academic interest here. . Was essentially trying to > communicate that I don't know if its such a important event at least from > the commercial pro

Re: [BangPypers] Wall street may embrace Python

2010-04-26 Thread Dhananjay Nene
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:

Re: [BangPypers] Wall street may embrace Python

2010-04-26 Thread Dhananjay Nene
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai < abpil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Dhananjay Nene < > dhananjay.n...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> Whoa! what becomes law ? From what i can understand it primarily refers > to > >> the preferred mechani

Re: [BangPypers] Wall street may embrace Python

2010-04-26 Thread Dhananjay Nene
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai < abpil...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Dhananjay Nene >wrote: > > > 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 Ba

Re: [BangPypers] Wall street may embrace Python

2010-04-26 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Dhananjay Nene > wrote: > >> >> >> Whoa! what becomes law ? From what i can understand it primarily refers to >> the preferred mechanism of documenting complex waterfall provisions, in >> fiscal projections. >> > I downloaded the PDF from the SEC web-site and he

Re: [BangPypers] Wall street may embrace Python

2010-04-26 Thread Dhananjay Nene
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Dhananjay Nene > wrote: > [..] > >> 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

Re: [BangPypers] Wall street may embrace Python

2010-04-26 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Dhananjay Nene wrote: > 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

Re: [BangPypers] Wall street may embrace Python

2010-04-26 Thread Asokan Pichai
On 26 April 2010 13:53, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: [snipped] > I don't expect people to convert in back into English but there will, > at the very least, be a need for Python specific training. This reminded me of something I read: here it is http://www.ymeme.com/will-hartungs-guerilla-lisp-opus.html

Re: [BangPypers] Wall street may embrace Python

2010-04-26 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Dhananjay Nene wrote: [..] >> 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.

Re: [BangPypers] Wall street may embrace Python

2010-04-26 Thread Dhananjay Nene
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai > wrote: > [..] > > If you don't think that as a huge business opportunity, I wonder > > what kind of Python consultant you are ;-)[..] > > Oh. I do. > > It's just that I recen

Re: [BangPypers] Wall street may embrace Python

2010-04-26 Thread Dhananjay Nene
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 > wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:49 AM,