programming language designed for trading?

Quote from nealvan:

You can do alot with visual basic 4.0-6 if you know how to use it.
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Nah....STA (single threaded architecture) pretty much kills it for intraday trading.
 
Quote from syswizard:

Nah....STA (single threaded architecture) pretty much kills it for intraday trading.
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Unless you're processing terrabytes of real time data...
Which ** very few ** pro traders are...
Trading platforms are NOT very CPU intensive.

I do 500 trades/day running VB6 and Excel custom systems...
And the ONLY bottleneck would be processing real-time quote data...
Which is usually a completely separate system from order management.

And....
The future is not multi-threading...
But grid computing like:

http://www.digipede.net/

People coding complex multi-threaded software in 2007...
Should be building powerful grids using cheap boxes instead.

The kind of programming talent that can optimize real-time systems costs 100K per man year...
Versus a grid of 10 boxes = 30 Ghz virtual machine...
That costs roughly 10K.
 
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