Re: [tlug] [OT] Japan and 海外 credit cards

[Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>]

Curt Sampson wrote:
> CF wrote:
>   
>>> Yeah, I hear some banks are still using OS/2...
>>>       
>> or Excel 97 for that matter (it's 2009 now :-)
>>     
>
> Actually, I'm not quite with you on that one.
>
> Excel hits a particular sore spot. It may be starting to change, but
> in recent history, give any quant (referring to a quantitative analyst
> in the financial domain) a nice shiny new copy of Excel 2007, with its
> cool multi-threaded recalc and all, and watch him recoil in horror.
>   

Thats interesting/scary, I aways imagined quants would use mathematic,
matlab or something else more serious then Excel extensions.  Dam excel
ate the global economy!

Edward