Re: [gentoo-user] [WAY OT] GUI programming for Linux (and Windows possibly)

2009-06-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: > Mark Knecht schrieb: > [...] >>    These days I'm trading stock index futures for a living. I have >> data files that I analyze in Excel over the weekend to help me make >> decisions about how to trade the coming week, but I'm always fightin

Re: [gentoo-user] [WAY OT] GUI programming for Linux (and Windows possibly)

2009-06-28 Thread Florian Philipp
Mark Knecht schrieb: [...] >These days I'm trading stock index futures for a living. I have > data files that I analyze in Excel over the weekend to help me make > decisions about how to trade the coming week, but I'm always fighting > Excel as it really isn't intended for the sort of math I wa

Re: [gentoo-user] [WAY OT] GUI programming for Linux (and Windows possibly)

2009-06-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Arttu V. wrote: > On 6/28/09, Mark Knecht wrote: >> Actually I'm liking the suggest to try using R. I have already managed >> to read my data files using the read.csv function. When I understand >> headers and tables better I'll likely be able to make my plots fro

Re: [gentoo-user] [WAY OT] GUI programming for Linux (and Windows possibly)

2009-06-28 Thread Arttu V.
On 6/28/09, Mark Knecht wrote: > Actually I'm liking the suggest to try using R. I have already managed > to read my data files using the read.csv function. When I understand > headers and tables better I'll likely be able to make my plots from > that data pretty easily. It's cross platform so it

Re: [gentoo-user] [WAY OT] GUI programming for Linux (and Windows possibly)

2009-06-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Robert Bridge wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mark Knecht wrote: >> Hi, >>    I know this is WAY off topic for this list but there's a lot of >> smart, experienced people here so I figured I'd look for a little >> guidance and then poss

Re: [gentoo-user] [WAY OT] GUI programming for Linux (and Windows possibly)

2009-06-28 Thread Robert Bridge
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >I know this is WAY off topic for this list but there's a lot of > smart, experienced people here so I figured I'd look for a little > guidance and then possibly join another email list that's more > appropriate. > >Th

Re: [gentoo-user] [WAY OT] GUI programming for Linux (and Windows possibly)

2009-06-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:09 AM, pk wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > >>    These days I'm trading stock index futures for a living. I have >> data files that I analyze in Excel over the weekend to help me make >> decisions about how to trade the coming week, but I'm always fighting >> Excel as it rea

Re: [gentoo-user] [WAY OT] GUI programming for Linux (and Windows possibly)

2009-06-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Roger Mason wrote: > Mark, > > Mark Knecht writes: > >>    So the main question is what sort of language (and possibly >> programming environment) should a complete novice look at to get his >> feet wet with GUI programming. I'd like something fairly light - >> per

Re: [gentoo-user] [WAY OT] GUI programming for Linux (and Windows possibly)

2009-06-28 Thread pk
Mark Knecht wrote: >These days I'm trading stock index futures for a living. I have > data files that I analyze in Excel over the weekend to help me make > decisions about how to trade the coming week, but I'm always fighting > Excel as it really isn't intended for the sort of math I want to d

Re: [gentoo-user] [WAY OT] GUI programming for Linux (and Windows possibly)

2009-06-28 Thread Roger Mason
Mark, Mark Knecht writes: >So the main question is what sort of language (and possibly > programming environment) should a complete novice look at to get his > feet wet with GUI programming. I'd like something fairly light - > performance probably won't be a huge problem - that I could run u

[gentoo-user] [WAY OT] GUI programming for Linux (and Windows possibly)

2009-06-28 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I know this is WAY off topic for this list but there's a lot of smart, experienced people here so I figured I'd look for a little guidance and then possibly join another email list that's more appropriate. These days I'm trading stock index futures for a living. I have data files that I