I don't have a ton of direct experience with this, but anecdotally I've
heard that perl is quite good it this. (It's used for a ton of genetic
modeling and that sort of thing). Of course, your mileage may vary... but it
might be worth checking out a scripting language rather than trying to dig
into c++.
-- jon
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 6:35 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Wondering about good languages for financial math processing
Hi all,
In the past I've been piggy backing on Excel via COM in order to do some
calculations as ColdFusion isn't the best of tools for performing
mathematical routines. Now, this is not ideal either as it requires Excel to
be installed on the server and takes up valuable processing time.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to any good languages suited for
mathematical processing? Preferably with the ability to connect or extract
results easily. I've heard that Java isn't really suited for mathematical
work either [1]. Perhaps C++ would do the job? I want to avoid COM at this
stage considering:
a) CFMX doesnt work too well with COM now;
b) COM is becoming an obsolete technology with MS pushing .Net and web
services instead.
TIA,
Dave
[1] I was told by a friend studying for his MSc Comp Sci. so I could be
completely wrong in my presumptions about Java being unsuited for
mathematical work.
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