Of course Banks/Financial Firms/Investment Banks want software that is correct, secure, and logs transactions.
Aspects are great for cross-cutting concerns like security and logging; as in AspectJ. For correctness, functional programming has that. With monads its easy to add logging and security. Something the BCLC (British Columbia Lottery Corporation) has missed entirely. :) On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:05:50 +0800, you wrote: >Remember that Banks/Financial Firms/Investment Banks were among the first big >uses of punch card readers, mainframes, cobol, C, C++ (and OOP), VBA, Java.. >I'm not saying if I like any of those languages (my presence on this list >should give a clue how I feel) but investment banks picking up FP and Haskell >bodes quite well for Haskell in the future. > >Max > >On Aug 10, 2010, at 12:59 AM, Tom Hawkins wrote: > >>> Good, we need more functional programmers actually solving real >>> problems. But please put your skills to work in an industry other >>> than investment banking. >> >> I've received a lot mail on this comment; mostly positive. Here's one >> from someone who wishes to remain anonymous: >> >>> First of all I would like to say that I like your work regarding e.g. >>> Atom. Second, I would like to know what exactly is bad about a Haskell >>> job in investment banking as a lot of good programmers work in this >>> industry. >> >> It's disproportionate. 95% of the job offerings in functional >> programming are with investment firms. I believe investment banking >> is important, but does it really need to dominate a large percentage >> of the world's top tier programmers? Is computing the risk of >> derivative contracts more important than pursuing sustainable energy, >> new drug discovery, improving crop yields, etc. Some will argue >> investment banking enables all of these things -- and I'm sure many >> people in the industry go to work everyday feeling proud of their >> contributions. But I just think most of this talent is going in to >> improve the bottom line and little else. >> >> (Yes, I realize that's were the money is, and that's who's hiring. >> Actually I'm very glad. Investment banking is the first industry to >> adopt functional programming on a large scale. And others will >> follow.) >> >> -Tom -- Regards, Casey _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
