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Troll Technology (QT) Releases Scripting Language

Posted by timothy on from the words-that-do dept.

OopChugALug writes "Troll Tech last night released a beta of QSA, which stands for QT Scripting Language for Applications. Download here. As a business apps developer for a major financial institution's trading floor, I know the traders will love this. Hopefully, with QSA, I can get rid of Excel, and give the traders Spreadsheet widgets, with the flexibility of a 'VBA-like' scriptability to boot!"

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  1. Hopefully by Strange+Ranger · · Score: 4, Insightful

    'Lug, you aren't going to roll something out to your Trading Desk with "no support and no warranty"?

    Are you?

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    1. Re:Hopefully by b_pretender · · Score: 3, Insightful
      Trading support software is developed in-house at *all* of the investment banks (i.e. Supported in house, no warranty).

      What's unusual is that this guy (story's original author) thinks that he's going to get the said traders to move away from Excel. Yeah, that will happen when Enron regains its credibility as a market maker. I got news for him. The traders drive the trader-support tools. He should think to stop using excel *after* the traders start asking him to stop using excel.

      All traders everywhere use Excel. All Risk depts everwhere use Excel. A majority of quant modeling is done with excel.

      Please post any exceptions below, because I'm interested in knowing who doesn't use excel.

      A final point is that VBA for Excel is highly polished and the best currently available. It's very easy to code and compile C++ DLLs that directly link into Excel through VBA. A lot of people are doing this, there's a lot of information available, .net promises to make this even easier to do, and there's little reason to switch to something different.

  2. Re:just what we need by eddy+the+lip · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's based on ECMAscript, so it's not really learning a whole other language. This was smart on TrollTech's part - no one's interested in learning a whole other language just to interface with pretty widgets. This'll make it very accessible to a lot of developers.

    Should open up some interesting possibilities for KDE, too.

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  3. Re:When hell freezes over, pigs fly, et cetera. by e8johan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    QSA shows the great hidden abilites of the Qt toolkit. Hopefully the code will show how easy this is so that a free VBA compatible version will appear rendering all (non-viral) Windows scripts runnable in a free environment. This is one of the major things M$ Office has today, the scriptability. It is not great, not even good according to some (me) but it is there and works.