All About ‘Bank Python,’ a Finance-Specific Language Fork

3 years ago thenewstack.io

Summary: This is a summary of an article originally published by The New Stack. Read the full original article here →

In November, London-based software engineer https://uk.linkedin.com/in/cal-paterson-290a2730 published a fascinating “https://calpaterson.com/bank-python.html,” describing it as “The strange world of Python, as used by big investment banks … “If you know a certain important function existed at a previous bank in a certain file, it probably exists in the same file in your current bank,” he said.

(Although Paterson also adds that even within the investment banking industry, “some banks have it and some do not.”)

The first big surprise: Bank Python doesn’t have access to a filesystem!

So Bank Python programs first just open a connection to that database of objects — and then away they go.

DevOps Articles