
This is an entirely cooked-up example resembling some of the data you might
encounter looking at trades on a tick-by-tick basis.  

It provides a good example for why ProtoBuffers rocks: they are concise, they
are fast, they are extensible --- and they can be hooked up to several
languages with C++, Java and Python supported by Google, and others by
third-party projects such as this providing R.
