As Eric suggested, calling it QuantLib.jl works best for package
standardization, and is not used elsewhere.

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 5:09 AM, Luigi Ballabio <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Very interesting--drop me a line if you want me to add a link to your
> project on the QuantLib site.  One thing though: the name JQuantLib has
> been taken for a while by another project (with which I'm not involved)
> that's writing a Java port of QuantLib; see <
> http://www.jquantlib.org/en/latest/>.  You might want to come up with a
> new name to avoid confusion.
>
> Now I just have to learn Julia to have a look at your code :)
>
> Luigi
>
>
> On Tuesday, March 1, 2016 at 7:56:45 AM UTC+1, Christopher Alexander wrote:
>>
>> Thanks guys!  I still have a lot of work to do regarding writing tests
>> and all, but one awesome thing is that for the most part, I am matching or
>> beating the C++ timings for the examples I've created so far.
>>
>> On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 11:24:09 PM UTC-5, Viral Shah wrote:
>>>
>>> You've already got a nice body of code there!
>>>
>>> -viral
>>>
>>> On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 10:02:16 PM UTC+5:30, Christopher
>>> Alexander wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello all, I'd like to point people in the direction of a package I've
>>>> been working on: JQuantLib, to get some feedback.  Basically, I am trying
>>>> to write a version of the very popular open-source quantitative finance
>>>> library QuantLib in pure Julia.  The library itself is written in C++, but
>>>> it is commonly used in Python (via SWIG).  I thought this would be a first
>>>> attempt at trying to solve a common problem in many financial firms where
>>>> you have basically two different dev environments: a calculation-heavy one
>>>> (where speed is important) in C++, C, etc and one that is increasingly in
>>>> Python to provide an abstraction to that lower level.  Julia seems to be a
>>>> perfect fit for eliminating the myriad issues one can encounter with this
>>>> bifurcated dev setup.
>>>>
>>>> The package itself is located here:
>>>> https://github.com/pazzo83/JQuantLib
>>>>
>>>> There is a bond pricing (NPV) example in the readme itself, and further
>>>> examples in the examples folder (these are under development still).  I am
>>>> continuing to work on this and add to it, but I'd love some feedback!  I'm
>>>> still relatively new to Julia, but working on this has definitely improved
>>>> my fluency of the language.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> Chris
>>>>
>>>

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