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it's different now but historically quants were not well versed in software engineering. If anything it would have been R 10-15 years ago.
by djtriptych 9y ago
it's different now but historically quants were not well versed in software engineering. If anything it would have been R 10-15 years ago.
- kgwgk 9y agoR was almost irrelevant in finance 10 years ago, Matlab was much more widely used. R may have more momentum now, but I’m not sure it has overtaken Matlab yet. And C++ was, and probably remains, king.
- vostok 9y agoI think a lot of the discrepancy is explained by the fact that quant is a very widely applied title. There are quants who spend most of their day in Excel and quants who spend most of their day in C++.
- hardlianotion 9y ago10-15 years ago it was excel excel excel for quants in most investment banks.