On 11 Aug 2010, at 08:30, Ketil Malde wrote:
ng on FP in general as well.
But as I interpreted this thread, the premise was not about the morality
of specific sectors, but rather that finance "takes away" too much of
the FP talent. My opinion is that we should rather appreciate business
or organizations willing to fund FP - perhaps especially for "evil"
organizations, where funds would otherwise go to more nefarious
purposes.
Investment banking has long been at the forefront of adopting niche languages ... I know people who worked on APL in banks, and now J (
http://www.jsoftware.com/) and Q (
http://kx.com/Products/kdb+.php). Even Perl was big in the finance industry, before the web brought it into the mainstream. If you want to work on real world problems (and asset allocation
is a real problem) then this is the place to be... Until the rest of the world catches up.