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Yaron Minsky is the technical director at Jane Street Capital, which is one of the most prestigious functional programming shops in the world. http://janestreet.com/technology/articles.php
EDIT: it was already posted below.
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You might find this interesting: https://ocaml.janestreet.com/?q=node/61 TL;DR: Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm whose language of choice is OCaml and has several people programming in it full-time. Besides experiencing the commonly-cited advantages of FP (productivity, expressiveness, local reasoning), they also found it highly performant, useful for rapid prototyping and resilient to changing requirements…
By "several people programming in it full-time" you mean "everyone who writes code in the company (IT, developers, researchers and traders) writes code in OCaml" right?. Yaron has said (perhaps in that video, perhaps somewhere else) that the founding partners (who were voice traders, not programmers) learned OCaml as their second programming language, after VBA. The language pervades the company.
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I think this is going to turn out to be a killer feature of Ocaml once people get used to the fact that using 8 cores at once isn't that great of a goal when on-demand computing platforms let you scale much much larger. I think this point isn't made often enough. There certainly are times when scaling within a single machine is useful but, as is more often the case, if you have to scale beyond a single physical insta…
Certainly, but there are circumstances - say high-performance math & data heavy stuff - that benefits greatly from a shared memory implementation. And the ease of use of multi-process architectures needs to be improved as well.
As a primarily imperative programmer who is just becoming more familiar with Haskell, I'd love to see a compare/contrast between Haskell and Ocaml from someone with expertise in this area.
As a primarily imperative programmer who is just becoming more familiar with Haskell, I'd love to see a compare/contrast between Haskell and Ocaml from someone with expertise in this area.
not mentioned by others is the real reason why Haskell is winning: concurrency & parallelism. The GHC compiler for Haskell has an incredible runtime with async IO by default, it is capable of running millions of threads, works on multi-core, and has a good STM implementation.
As a primarily imperative programmer who is just becoming more familiar with Haskell, I'd love to see a compare/contrast between Haskell and Ocaml from someone with expertise in this area.
The biggest differences are that Haskell defaults to lazy evaluation and OCaml defaults to strict and that OCaml allows you to mix in imperative code without explicitly using constructs like monads.
Yaron Minsky is the technical director at Jane Street Capital, which is one of the most prestigious functional programming shops in the world. http://janestreet.com/technology/articles.php
Yaron Minsky is the technical director at Jane Street Capital, which is one of the most prestigious functional programming shops in the world. http://janestreet.com/technology/articles.php
I wonder how goes an interview at their company.