Just be curious...

[Mingjun Huang]

Dear all,

Thank you for such a nice thing on the Q.L. Just be curious, I have a few questions on the QuantLib:

1. If someone plan to devote his/her life (just like me) on Quantitative finance, he/she will probably need to work as a developer instead of user. How do you separate "developer" and "user"?  Does a "user"  mean a trader who just use the tools ? (like writing serveral lines of C++ code utilizing the tool)? If so, is there any propriate manual for this kind of end users? Or, someone may focus on design a good graphic interface, (like LabView??)

2. How about the acuracy, flexibility? Did anyone do some experiments on those libraries?

3. Do you have any plan to be a future new standard? (eg. QuantLib ~ Linux, QuantLib.org ~ Redhat ?)

Thank you!

Best,
Mingjun

[Luigi Ballabio]

Hi Mingjun,

On 12/13/2005 08:01:35 PM, Mingjun Huang wrote:
> How do you separate "developer" and "user"?

Very loosely. Usually I call "user" someone who uses the library but  
does not modify it. A "developer" would be someone who modifies the  
library or add features to it. Both are C++ developers.


> 2. How about the acuracy, flexibility? Did anyone do some experiments
> on those libraries?

When possible, we compare our results with published ones. We also  
check consistency between results. You can look at the test suite to  
see what is checked.


> 3. Do you have any plan to be a future new standard? (eg. QuantLib ~
> Linux, QuantLib.org ~ Redhat ?)

Personally, I don't. But I cannot vouch for others :)

Later,
        Luigi


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