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Re: Some q

Posted by Luigi Ballabio-4 on Mar 11, 2002; 8:05am
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/Some-q-tp1882p1883.html

At 10:59 AM 3/9/02 +0300, Ihsan Ali Al Darhi wrote:
>Hi...

Hi Ihsan, and welcome.

>I use VC++.NET on Windows XP Professional. I looked at ur library and like
>it very much.

Thanks.

>But there is a problem I face. My background is not
>established well in finance so that I can't understand many of the concepts
>and techniques of this library.
>
>1. Why don't u provide some info in the help files on the theories this
>library after? I mean the theories, rules, laws, calculation techniques, etc
>on the financial techniques and instrument?
>
>2. Or, why don't u write a book on how to use this library?

Because we have real jobs as well as kids and families :)

Documentation has a priority just as high as the code in this project,
exactly for the reason you wrote---the code is useless if nobody knows how
to use it. But documentation takes time. Also, it's kind of hard to draw
the line: what can we assume as known by our users (so that we can use that
time for other tasks just as useful, given the finiteness of available
man-hours) and what should we explain?

What we have now at http://www.quantlib.org/html/index.html is a
start---we'll be happy if you (and anybody else) help us by pointing out
what is missing.

Bye,
         Luigi