Hi, Just to add some details about the project I'm working on in case anyone is interested. The project is called Quanthas and is being hosted on sourceforge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/quanthas/. The aim of the project is to produce a Haskell implementation of Quantlib ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/quantlib/)- an open source library for quantitative finance written in C++. Haskell is starting to be used seriously in quantitative finance and risk modelling circles within the investment banking and finance community, so I thought there would be some value in producing such a version.
If anyone is interested in helping out, we would be more than happy to hear from you, since the project has just started and there's a great deal to do (and learn!). Best regards Simon Courtenage On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Yitzchak Gale <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Simon, > > Did you intentionally not reply to the list? > > Simon Courtenage wrote: > > This is for a project to port an open-source C++ library to haskell. > > Great! We'd love to give you whatever support you need > for your efforts. > > > My initial plan is to more or less preserve the way the > > library works in the first draft of the port and see how > > far we can get like that > > That's fine, as long as you truly mean the way it works, > and not the way the code is structured. Haskell is a post-OO > language. Its abstractions are very different than class > structures in C++. There is no direct translation - any given > C++ class structure could correspond to many totally different > kinds of Haskell programs, depending on what the program > is trying to do. > > If you are trying to find a method to transliterate a strongly > OO-style C++ program more or less word for word into > Haskell in a way that the class structure of the C++ will > still be apparent in the result, you are likely in for a frustrating > experience. You will spend a lot more time than you expected, > and the results will be very unsatisfying. Many others have > ended up that way. > > On the other hand, if you are willing to be a little more flexible > in your thinking, you'll probably find the task much easier than > you thought, enjoy it, and reap many benefits from the process > that you never imagined. > > In any case, please keep us in the loop, we'd like to hear > how it's going. And, uh... would you be willing to share a > few more details about what it is that you're trying to port? ;) > > Thanks, > Yitz >
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