I may have overstated things, I aplogise if I was over the top, its clear you are an expericned programmer. I think there are many useful paradigms in programming and they all can up the level of abstraction to varying degrees. All I was saying is ...

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If you are serious about building ATS's then you would never use MT4/5. Try searching for FIX, you want to escape the shackles and contraints and roll your own solution. You can then use any language you want, C, C++, Java , C#, Python, Ruby, ...

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I am not saying OO is usless, but dogmatic adhernce to it is a mistake. Using interfaces to decouple components of a system can be done easily in C for eaxample.

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My issue is you are saying Cand C++ have done a lot of damage somehow, that is like blaming knives for knife crime. Just because you couldnt program in a powerful language that mose OS's, Games, compiler runtimes are written doesnt mean they are ...

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You couldnt hack it using a lower lever language so you now use like the rest of the mediocre programmers out there a toy language that protects them from the complexity of a computer. Thats fine, but while your programs is loading the runtime and ...

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I have programmed in OO lang for that last 6-7 years so I understand it fully. I just thinks its overused, especially inhertiance which I have never found the need to use. Any programmer I ever respected thinks the same, I went through the stage you ...

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Basically a class is like a struct but with the option to have functions as part of it so instead of push(&stack, a); you would have stack.push(a);

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Not sure about billions being spent on GCC, as its a FSF Gnu project. Maybe millions on man hours.

Object Oriented Programming

Any damage done isn't the fault of the language but the programmer being incompetent. There are many examples of well written software in C or C++ eg the Linux kernel is written in C, and will continue to be. I usually find people that make ...

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I would learn C, object oriented programming is overrated and not the only way to program, its useful for UI toolkits say, but procedural programming is as productive if you are writing a personal program.

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I see, sorry Adal, good anaylsis then, its good to know they providers have clean data.

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Im not surprised at the results if there was a big difference then it would be an arbitrage opportunity.

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I think with today's hardware and the improvements in the .net run time you can write almost everything in C# and not worry about it.. this is assuming skill in programming obviously, a bad programmer can write a algorithm in C and make it run ...

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Thanks Craig, read his posts on the "other" forum. Great to her his real voice and his story. Wonder if Acrary has done any interviews?

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One if the things I love about Linux ESP debian based distros is the package managment system apt-get etc. I remember using gentoo where it compiled every package optimized to you system!

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Where are all the OSX trading systems! But seriously i think both windows server and Linux are capabale of hosting trading systems. If I could have visual studio on Linux natively...

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Thanks Spekkie, I think Windows server specially later ones are as stable as Linux, as as Sql server and the .NET framework. url The only downside is the updates when you have to reboot, but these can be don on weekends when he market is closed.

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I think dropping down to C++ for critical areas like the one you suggested is always going to be on the cards. I am only processing (just saving) 25 forex tick streams at the minute, but I am using threading to make sure the socket is always ...

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Yeah I was all set to use Linux/C++/Mysql but I am back on Windows Server 2008/C#/SQL server 2008, Its what I use very day, so although I do love the Linux platform its not my natural habitat.

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I agree, its fast enough for what I am building and I can produce stuff in 10th of the time. My day job is and has been developing in C#, .NET for the last 6-7 years. The productivity difference is from using C++ is just too great.

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