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
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!
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
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
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai
abpil...@gmail.com wrote:
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
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai
abpil...@gmail.com 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 recently needed to implement a simple business rule
engine
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,
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai
abpil...@gmail.com wrote:
[..]
If you don't think that as a huge business opportunity, I wonder
what kind of Python consultant you are ;-)[..]
Oh. I do.
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Dhananjay Nene
dhananjay.n...@gmail.com 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
On 26 April 2010 13:53, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com 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
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Dhananjay Nene dhananjay.n...@gmail.comwrote:
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
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Dhananjay Nene
dhananjay.n...@gmail.com wrote:
[..]
I don't see a normal business transaction processing runtime getting
influenced particularly. Python is a candidate for replacing
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Dhananjay Nene
dhananjay.n...@gmail.comwrote:
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
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.comwrote:
Whoa! what becomes law ? From what i can understand it primarily refers
to
the preferred mechanism of documenting
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
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang sir...@sirtaj.netwrote:
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
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Dhananjay Nene dhananjay.n...@gmail.comwrote:
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang sir...@sirtaj.netwrote:
This is not a deal-breaker of course, and this decision to use Python is
a sensible, pragmatic one (lots of python programmers around,
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Dhananjay Nene dhananjay.n...@gmail.comwrote:
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang sir...@sirtaj.net
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
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
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 dhananjay.n...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang sir...@sirtaj.net
wrote:
This is not a deal-breaker of course, and
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang sir...@sirtaj.net 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
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Dhananjay Nene
dhananjay.n...@gmail.com 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
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Dhananjay Nene
dhananjay.n...@gmail.com wrote:
[..]
Apologies at persisting in this .. but I do think it is a very
unconventional usecase for programs to be used as specifications.
On Monday 26 Apr 2010 4:53:05 pm Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Dhananjay Nene
dhananjay.n...@gmail.com 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
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang sir...@sirtaj.net 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
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang sir...@sirtaj.netwrote:
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
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Dhananjay Nene
dhananjay.n...@gmail.com 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
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
On 26 April 2010 16:44, Dhananjay Nene dhananjay.n...@gmail.com 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 dhananjay.n...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Dhananjay Nene dhananjay.n...@gmail.comwrote:
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org
wrote:
On Monday 26 Apr 2010 4:53:05 pm Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Dhananjay Nene
dhananjay.n...@gmail.com
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 6,
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