Well, it is probably possible to do financial modelling in Erlang (fault tolerance, etc) or Go (good concurrency support).
But why would you need this? You can do financial model in 1 hour using Excel...
But why would you need this? You can do financial model in 1 hour using Excel...
But what the article is about, in a growing startup or a changing company (say, completely new product line) the 'one master source of data' is not in a database but the assumptions in your head; and any clever model based on your historical data will be either impossible or far more wrong than a simple order-of-magnitude calculation done on a paper napkin. And, well, Excel is more convenient than the napkin.