SAS vs ROOT. Roasting SAS and comparing to ROOT

Recently, guys from the department of Finance asked on the school's discussion group for someone to help them in a data analysis contest (Hosted by SAS). What can go wrong? I have heard good things about SAS since I'm 10. My mother's company uses SAS extensively. In the worst case we can write ML algorithms...

Why you should build your WebApp on C++

There's a lot of NDA involved, so expect me to gloss through details. My recent work involves writing a custom search engine for a client. It have to search through millions of records in a very short time according to a custom heuristic. Then sort and send the results back to the client. By boss...