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Quantlib is "aimed at providing a comprehensive software framework for quantitative finance." Written in C++, with bindings to other languages like Python and Ruby.
"[M]any good quants are wasting their time writing C++ classes which have been already written thousands of times." I dunno; I'm not a rocket scientist, but if I have to do it I'd use Smalltalk or Common Lisp, not C++.
While googling for the etymology of the term "rocket scientist" in quantitative finance, I came across this interesting-looking site.