I don't think I can be of much help with regards to the questions, but would you be able to post a link to the SPJ lecture?
Thanks :-) On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Amiruddin Nagri <amir.na...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My current project is about making an accounting engine that handles all > the journal entries, transactions, portfolios etc. The communication > with the engine is based on simple protocol, the things to be taken > care of in the order are consistency, handling large data(performance) and > availability. > > I came across a video lecture by Simon Peyton Jones where he gives an > example from Financial domain (derivatives etc) to explain how haskell is > being used and the advantages provided. > > I am interested in knowing if Haskell will be the right fit for my project. > My requirements are transactional nature, which I believe is one of the > strengths of functional programming, also handling large data set and being > available. there is no such requirement for partitioning of data and the > application is going to be centrally hosted on a single server. > > AFAIK OCaml and other functional languages are heavily used in financial > domain, some of the reason are same as features I am looking for. > I wanted some insight as to how Haskell is going to help me with my project. > Also there has been some concerns because of lazy evaluation in Haskell and > memory leaks associated with it. > http://jlouisramblings.blogspot.com/2010/04/haskell-vs-erlang-for-bittorent-clients.html > > Also, if you have any suggestions of the choice of programming > language, we have been looking into other functional languages like > Scala and Clojure. But we have not dig deep on the performance > aspects of these languages, if someone can shed a light on the pros- > cons of these languages, it will help us very much to come to a > decision. > > -Regards, > Amir > > _______________________________________________ > Beginners mailing list > beginn...@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners > > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe