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Coding for finance is about finding the right balance between don’t repeat yourself and don’t abstract too much.

Financial contracts tend to have both a lot in common and a lot of differences.

An option on the Forex is vastly different from an equity option or a swaption, yet sometimes you need to treat those things just as options, and sometimes not at all.

The tradeoff is really hard.



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