Re: Bloomberg and Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg46429] Re: [mg46342] Bloomberg and Mathematica
- From: "Sseziwa Mukasa,,(978) 536-2359" <mukasa at jeol.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 00:36:52 -0500 (EST)
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On Feb 16, 2004, at 8:59 AM, Vlad Grubman wrote: > Hello everyone, > > this is my first post, so don't kick me yet if I do something wrong. > > I have a task at hand to retrieve Bloomberg's historical data into > Mathematica. I'm not even sure where to start looking, so any advice > will be highly appreciated. I'm pretty much an experienced programmer, > but just saw Mathematica for the first time, so consider me as a total > newbie :) > > Thanks in advance and hope to hear some responses soon. My first suggestion, use the included Help Browser and the Mathematica Book. In particular look under the Input and Output section of the Help Browser under Built-in Functions which will point you to relevant chapters of the the Mathematica Book and describe the relevant functions. Chapter 1 of the Mathematica Book is an intermediate tutorial. Section 11 deals with file input and output, I suggest reading as much of that as necessary. You can also search the master index of the Help Browser which can point you to relevant starting points for learning Mathematica. I'm not sure what your programming background is, but as a language Mathematica is different from most popular languages: C, C++, Java etc. in that it encourages a functional programming style, some familiarity with LISP concepts is helpful. That said, Mathematica's file I/O model is not too different from the stream based protocols of most other languages. Good luck, Ssezi
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- Bloomberg and Mathematica
- From: Vlad Grubman <vgrubman@catbegemot.com>
- Bloomberg and Mathematica