David Bergman wrote:

Yaron,

This is probably out-of-topic, but: are you, or have you considered, using the .NET implementation of OCaml. I managed - painstakingly - to integrate it into a toy .NET project of mine, using .NET Direct3D, and see some virtue in that combination.

I've been following OCaml/.NET integration, and it does seem potentially quite interesting, particularly in a business environment like ours where all of the traders use Windows machines. Which .NET implementation did you look at, OCamIL? Or F#?

If only we Haskellers would be as lucky: both a fast implementation and an integrated one with a Real (trademark...) environment such as .NET :-(

/David

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-----Original Message----- From: haskell-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:haskell-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Yaron Minsky Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 3:28 PM To: S. Alexander Jacobson Cc: haskell@haskell.org Subject: Re: [Haskell] Job Posting (Looking for a few good functionalprogrammers)

S. Alexander Jacobson wrote:

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Yaron, would you mind sharing the reason your firm chose OCaml over Haskell for your applications?

I started the quantitative research group, and I knew OCaml very well, and didn't know Haskell except by reputation. As to the merits, it is my general impression that OCaml is faster, and is all around a more pragmatic language than Haskell. That's merely an ill-informed impression, but there it is.

Yaron

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For others, I would love to organize an informal gathering of NYC Haskell programmers if there are any. If you are

interested, please

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contact me and I'll try to make it happen.

-Alex- ______________________________________________________________ S. Alexander Jacobson tel:917-770-6565 http://alexjacobson.com

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Yaron Minsky wrote:

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Jane Street Capital (an affiliate of Henry Capital <http://henrycapital.com>) is a proprietary trading

company located

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in Manhattan. The quantitative research department is

responsible for

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analyzing, improving, and generating trading strategies. It's an open and informal environment (you can wear shorts and a

t-shirt to

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the office), and the work is technically challenging, including systems work, machine learning, statistical analysis, parallel processing, and anything that crosses our path that looks useful.

One unusual attraction of the job is that the large

majority of our

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programming is done in OCaml. Pay is competitive, and we're a reasonably small company (around 85 employees), so advancement is pretty quick for someone who performs well.

Here's what we're looking for:

- Top-notch mathematical and analytic skills. We want people who can solve difficult technical problems, and think clearly and mathematically about all sorts of problems.

- Strong programming skills. Pretty much all of our

programming is

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in OCaml, so being a solid caml hacker is a big plus. But we're also interested in great programmers who we are convinced will be able to pick up OCaml quickly, so anyone with a high-level of proficiency with functional languages could be a good match.

- Strong Unix/Linux skills --- We're looking for someone

who knows

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their way around the standard unix tools, can write

makefiles, shell

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scripts, etc. We use a beowulf cluster for

compute-intensive jobs,

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so experience programming for and administering clusters is a big plus.

If you're interested (or have any students you think might

be a good

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match) and would be willing to relocate to New York, please send a cover-letter and resume to:

yminsky@janestcapital.com

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