Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why are OCaml and Haskell being used at these companies?

13 Nov 2007


      On Tuesday 13 November 2007 08:41, Henning Thielemann wrote:
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On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Jon Harrop wrote:
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Penetration is highest in parts of industry where small groups of
talented programmers get together, most notably startups. Look at
XenSource, Wolfram Research, The MathWorks,
?? Mathematica and MatLab are just the opposite of statically safe
programming.
Absolutely. I was referring to a prototype Mathematica JIT compiler (developed 
in OCaml), the FFT routines in MATLAB (FFTW: written in OCaml) and the SML 
software that The MathWorks sell. I was not referring to the Mathematica and 
MATLAB languages themselves.

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Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
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