A Look at How Traders and Economists Are Using the Julia Programming Language

Re:A Look at How Traders and Economists Are Using the Julia ... by valarauca1 on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @11:55AM (#12901814)

This is the big key. A few short VBA macro's can give you regex's and cell swapping. Now you can conditionally swap the programs in other cells, via the contents of other cells.

You have a Turing Complete spread sheet.

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Re:A Look at How Traders and Economists Are Using the Julia ... by dsp1234 on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @12:27PM (#12902126)

At one point, VBA in Microsoft Word was my only available programming outlet. I was able, easily, to access DirectDraw and create a faux screen saver. DLL imports are available in VBA, so the entire win32 API is available (in addition to the normal Office automation stuff like sending email, modifying spreadsheets, etc)

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Re:A Look at How Traders and Economists Are Using the Julia ... by eon1 on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @07:48PM (#12905282)

Yeah, in a similar situation right now and I find the DLL thing is relatively unknown and incredibly powerful if used well. Recently this 'robotics' evangelist keeps trying to rope us into spending a few mil on his automation and I keep showing him up by automating the same stuff right out of Excel for little to nothing.

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