Title: review of Robert Brooks' book by Daniel Duffy, Ph.D.
Review: When I first saw the title I thought that this book would giveme some insights into applying C++ to real financial applications. Thereality was different. The main shortcomings in this book are, in myopinion:1. It is fairly unstructured as it does not deal withhigh-level issues such as mapping financial models to C++ in a cleanway.2. Most of the programs are simnple implementations offinancial models (mostly stochastic ones at that). It would take a lotof work to make them more flexible and reusable (for example, byapplying the Gamma (GOF) design patterns techniques).3. Very littleproper documentation (UML class diagrams would have done thejob).4. The layout can be improved (the publisher should take note)to make it more inviting to read.Daniel Duffy Datasim Education BVAmsterdam, Netherlands...
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