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From: Florian Philipp <lists@××××××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [WAY OT] GUI programming for Linux (and Windows possibly)
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:05:26
Message-Id: 4A47CCFD.3080002@f_philipp.fastmail.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] [WAY OT] GUI programming for Linux (and Windows possibly) by Mark Knecht
1 Mark Knecht schrieb:
2 [...]
3 > These days I'm trading stock index futures for a living. I have
4 > data files that I analyze in Excel over the weekend to help me make
5 > decisions about how to trade the coming week, but I'm always fighting
6 > Excel as it really isn't intended for the sort of math I want to do.
7 > The math's not difficult, but I need to look at various ranges,
8 > manage, sort and extract data from arrays, and amd then create charts.
9 > This is getting pretty difficult in Excel these days so I've started
10 > to wonder about writing a simple app to do what I need to do. It's not
11 > generally difficult stuff but it requires (or I prefer) a lot of small
12 > charts. I'm vaguely familiar with C & Pascal, but haven't programmed
13 > in years. I don't know C++ at all. I was trained as an EE.
14 >
15 [...]
16
17 This not what you asked for, but you might want to take a look at
18 http://sourceforge.net/projects/jstock
19
20 A friend of mine uses it for his stock trading.

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