I notice that you are considering integrating with Bloomberg. Should you
go that route, I can help you out. I've set up several interfaces to the
Bloomberg API and Datalicense products. One of these is a real-time
price reader.
Chip
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> 90% of what I intend to do now and in the future is write web
> applications that perform regular business processes (groupware, loan
> processing, accounting, etc.), but I also want to be able to write
> desktop applications (w/ GUI) using the chosen language. Boring stuff
> to a computer scientist, probably, but I'm a former business
> professor who became a business drone.
>
> Smalltalk probably has the advantage for these types of apps, yes?
>
> One of the applications will be doing natural language processing on
> RSS feeds, Bloomberg terminal feeds, and Usenet postings, etc.
>
> [For everyone who is so interested: It is essentially an application
> to combat fraud in the equities markets, and based on govt. funded
> research completed while I was at university studying to be a
> pointy-haired boss. The primary focus is on fraudulent trade patterns,
> but the NLP component would be used to find instances of stock kiting
> and shilling that run afoul of investment laws. It would also be used
> to find hidden risks in investment syndicates, whether formal or
> informal. For example: The failure of the LTCM hedge fund was such a
> huge risk to our economic system, in part, because so many of the
> investment banks that cleared the LTCM trades were parroting the LTCM
> trades. The banks were in awe of the Nobel-prize winning guys that
> worked for LTCM..."they're brilliant, so if I do the exact same
> thing, I'll look brilliant too!" The risks for the economic system
> increased exponentially because of the domino effect of everyone
> throwing their weight behind the same trades. One unforeseen
> circumstance and everyone gets wiped out...then they had to be bailed
> out by the government because it would drag the economy down the
> toilet, otherwise. Your tax dollars at work.]
>
> The NLP stuff just needs to be completed overnight, I guess in a
> batch-type format...not simultaneously. I'm very interested in
> learning more about what Bulent Murtezaoflu was saying about various
> approaches and hardware requirements for this type of task.
>
> I'm also interested in creating (relatively simple) expert and
> agent-based systems for our company. Lisp probably has the advantage
> for these types of apps, yes?
>