See intermixed

On Mar 29, 12:36 pm, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 29 March 2011 12:20, Peter A Pilgrim <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Mar 29, 11:37 am, Martijn Verburg <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Hey Peter,
>
> > > Well since you're form London as well I assume you've caught the news
> > > of the Guardian moving some of its backend to Scala?
>
> > Yes I know about the Guardian. I went to their presentation in
> > January.
> > The situation internationally is where I am at ... and I do want this
> > debate to be censored.
>
> > > There's a bunch of businesses that are also starting to investigate
> > > polyglot programming, one investment bank I know for example is using
> > > Clojure for statistical log analysis.
>
> > Interesting, when I asked said investment banks about their potential
> > Scala opportunities, the
> > answer is silence ... so you can hear my incandescence rising ...
> > I do not want to deflect the opinions of other
>
> I'm personally aware of a few banks running skunkworks Scala projects,
> you're also seeing a lot of interest from hedge funds and from companies
> that sell to hedge funds.  On top of this are some very large household-name
> media companies, a few firms involved in online gaming, and at least two
> companies working with SatNav/GPS.

And it is always the same names (sigh)

> I'm sadly not at liberty to name names here, but I CAN confirm that EDF
> trading has offices in the UK where they're working with Scala, and that the
> NHS has some Scala in production.

I may as well pack up my showel and toolbox and go back down the mine.
Yeah well... That how it is London.

What about anywhere else in the flipping world?

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