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I've stuck on topic from my very first post in this thread and you're in favor of talking about C# and using stackoverflow as a popularity metric? I took a look at a sample of your posts and realize you're one of those plankton in the sea hoping to pick up seagull shit that falls from the sky...

Can't wait for someone to hijack this thread and start talking about the merits of C# from nowhere. Weak aspects... Python: Fragmented packages - and hence, multithreading issues, documentation, lack of a robust IDE for finance. MATLAB: Compiler support on Linux. gfortran 4.3 omg. Bet I...

;) What's wrong with Fortran? Look, I disagree with most of what you say but at least you try to explain yourself, so I just want to end our grudge here as it's unproductive. Peace.

I think he mistook you for me, although I didn't mention anything about C/C++ being superior either - think he mistook me for the threadstarter of that thread too - he just created that strawperson out of nowhere and started going way out of tangent and talking about SO language popularity or...

Sorry, but again, you leave everyone highly doubtful of your analytical abilities. Either that or you just like making things up. Most of the SO questions are about the LAMP stack, Java, HTML/CSS and the likes. // May 2010...

You claim that you're not a programmer, then what are you in, sales and service? Because analytical thinking is clearly not your strong suit. The reason why C# has perhaps twice the tags as compared to C and C++ combined on SO can be explained by a multitude of reasons, including (1) it has...

@vicirek: Thanks for your words of support. It's just a pity that a thread with great potential got ruined by some dude who has too much time on his hands; writes with the punctuation and style of a teen's Facebook wall; refuses to examine his gut feeling when presented with quantitative...

I think you're mistaking me for another poster (I'm not the threadstarter?) - if you read my quoted text, I did write in favor of System.IO over iostream, and I did write in favor of high-level programming very early on in this thread. Popularity: That's untrue. Anecdotal evidence such as...

Guys, I think it is rather rude that you regress back to the whole C/C++ vs C# thing without addressing what I said. If you don't agree, at least acknowledge that I provided a valid argument and give reasons why you disagree. If you really want to start a language war... Having written quite...

Yes. ...This is like a person who doesn't know how to sew trying to become the next Balmain or Saint Laurent. There are just as many talented, experienced and eager fashion designers out there who want the same prize. Taking into account your willingness to learn, you should consider...

You asked for a "quant shop" and I named one: Then you turn around saying "Gelber IS" (presumably a "quant prop shop" now): And now you're shifting the definition (by dropping "quant" out of the phrase) far out of the left field: I can't keep up with your posts if the definitions...

1) I still don't know what Gelber is, but my guess is that it's very far from my idea of a "quant shop". 2) I didn't see any mention of prop firms in his posts. Since you've clarified that you've made a false assumption, let's agree that there are such firms in the LA region and move on.

Sorry, but this is incorrect. If it was true, you wouldn't have some of the very best in places such as Purchase, Stamford, Philadelphia, Sydney, Minneapolis, East Setauket. And of course, First Quadrant is indeed a premier shop.

What's Gelber? :confused: First Quadrant. I'm not too sure about the question. Are you looking purely to network or to find employment? If the former, it doesn't matter so much the physical location as does the events that you get involved in. Based on my personal experience, I've gotten...

Thanks. Yes, I'm aware of those cases, except I generally classify valuation and derivatives pricing as sell-side activity. I understand there are overlaps that might be firm-specific. I've tried eliminating buffer copy from CPU to GPU - but as far as my benchmarks go, it is still too slow...

I see. I don't really buy into the GPGPU paradigm. I could see uses for it in sell-side pricing, but I haven't found use for it in buy-side trading. If I really grasp for ideas, I could think of a few large matrix operations but I am guessing off the tip of my fingers that there are faster (and...

I can understand if this was C# vs Java, but why are we having a language war between C++ and C#? There are several nice features about C++, e.g. resource management vs C# IDisposable, templates vs C# generics, compiler support and platform neutrality; almost everything has C++ bindings, much...

I think you guys misunderstood - 2rosy wasn't making such a sweeping generalization. The right point to take away from his post is that a high-level language is (usually) more appropriate for a specialized, latency-insensitive, limited-reuse task like downloading a list of symbols. That said...

Depends on what you mean by "best", which relates mostly to what you're planning to do with the compiled code. For your execution boxes, you're probably restricted to specific hardware/OS/language choice - so there's not much to discuss. Only thing I'd take note is that GCC 4.7.2 is fast, I...

1. RAM is very fungible. If matching RAM with the same model and specs is a concern, sticks that I've bought 2 years ago are still widely available, widely used, and only cheaper today. The threadstarter is using Corsair Vengeance, which is still much in service. But even if disaster strikes and...