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It was flexible too - my all-time favourite application of FoxPro is Island ECN, one of the first big Alternative Trading Systems and a direct ancestor to NASDA
by andylynch 6y ago
It was flexible too - my all-time favourite application of FoxPro is Island ECN, one of the first big Alternative Trading Systems and a direct ancestor to NASDAQs current INET platform.
The matching engine was written in FoxPro for DOS! --- the source code is here-> http://josh.com/notes/island-ecn-10th-birthday/ http://josh.com/notes/island-ecn-10th-birthday/
- tluyben2 6y agoNice! Reading that code brings back memories... 1990 (around) I did a lot of work in dBase & Clipper & fox pro; it was easy to work with and, because in the Netherlands it was not that popular, I could get excellent job as 16-17 year old for the summer, working on admin systems for factories that used dbase & clipper. I remember porting some of those systems to Java half a decade later and asking myself if this was a good direction; Java looked so... crude at the time compared to these technologies.