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
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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:
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
For others, I would love to organize an informal gathering of NYC
Haskell programmers if there are any. If you are
interested, please
contact me and I'll try to make it happen.
-Alex-
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On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Yaron Minsky wrote:
Jane Street Capital (an affiliate of Henry Capital
<http://henrycapital.com>) is a proprietary trading
company located
in Manhattan. The quantitative research department is
responsible for
analyzing, improving, and generating trading strategies. It's an
open and informal environment (you can wear shorts and a
t-shirt to
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
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
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
their way around the standard unix tools, can write
makefiles, shell
scripts, etc. We use a beowulf cluster for
compute-intensive jobs,
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
match) and would be willing to relocate to New York, please send a
cover-letter and resume to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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