They said that once u;ve learnt a programming language it is easier to pick up another. Well, i concur that the logic behind them are more or less the same, but the coding arent man... its just like GAMs, it doesnt do certain things that Matlab does using a similar logic simply because they are programmed differently at the backend. both the engineering and finance thesis are computational in nature. one uses Matlab, the other uses SAS. To my horror SAS's codes are almost entirely different from matlab. Damn.
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