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 <dhananjay.n...@gmail.com > >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 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 > > > > That was a tongue-in-cheek response. You didn't see the smiley > at the end ? Ahh.. missed it :) > Btw, we are too early to guess-estimate any Python > programmer openings, but I was just having some fun when I wrote > about it. Surely, if SEC finally goes ahead and proposes Python > as its primary language of choice for such models, it doesn't > need much guess work to see that there will be demands for > people with talent in business rules and Python. > Business rules ? Thats probably a bigger scope than just saying fiscal models and projections. The former could be interpreted to be useful in a variety of scenarios, where as the latter is what is the primary focus here. > > > > > > >> > > > >> 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 ? > > > > Yeah, maybe we are. But surely if you can't see the humour in > trying to use an open source language in specifying the > requirements of what was mostly very difficult to understand > requirements (which enabled these bankers to sell toxic assets > packaging them into very attractive market instruments), then > so be it. > > Oh, I was excited at the thought. But more as someone interested in finance not so much as a python programmer. :) Dhananjay > > > > > -- > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > blog: http://blog.dhananjaynene.com > > twitter: http://twitter.com/dnene > > _______________________________________________ > > BangPypers mailing list > > BangPypers@python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > > > > > -- > --Anand > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > -- -------------------------------------------------------- blog: http://blog.dhananjaynene.com twitter: http://twitter.com/dnene _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers