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Thanks for the answer. I bought the book anyway because reading the listings may still prove useful, even if the code doesn't translate. But it's good to know.

I've read about old books for programming a BBC Micro with BASIC, where the games were in books written as code you would have to type in yourself. This book in particular caught my attention: http://www.acornelectron.co.uk/eug/revs/collins/Bbc_Micro_Wa...

I feel like the answer is obvious but I'm going to ask anyway: if I were to take the programs from one of these books and code it into this machine, is it likely to work?

Damn, yours beats mine. :(

The contest might be still on. The guy running it took a week off.

No, but I'm always looking for new content ideas. People like my R/Python for Stocks posts, and ask for more, but I'm not really sure where to start in terms of giving them what they want.

If Rcpp were not a thing, R might have died from being slow. Since it is a thing, though, people can easily write packages that are certainly fast enough for what they want to do, and that keeps the language useful.

I hear that R/Python's role in the project is initial modelling and testing. You train trading algorithms in R or Python, then deploy them in a C/C++ algorithm for speed.

Oh, the stories you hear...

Are you Paul Ryan?