On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Derek Elkins wrote:
On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 15:51 -0800, Donn Cave wrote:
I am looking for (objective.. i.e. not juts FPL cheerleading) opinions as to why Wall Street ( http://www.janestcapital.com/) and banking are now using OCaml and Haskell. I really want to understand what industrial markets are adopting FPLs and why in order to help push FPLs penetration into industry. I wouldn't know about that, but incidentally, the first I heard of a distinct Wall Street software world, in the 90's, they were looking for Smalltalk
On Nov 12, 2007, at 12:00 PM, Galchin Vasili wrote: programmers. Who knows what those crazy guys will be doing next.
Epigram?
From a cooperation with a financial institution I got the impression, that they have just enough money to try various things. Those guys e.g. believe that if you throw enough mathematics (supported by their money, of course) on their curves you can predict everything.