On Monday 01 February 2010 12:53:16 Diego Frata wrote: > Returning to the point of a "compelling case" to implement TCO. > > Lots of EU banks and USA banks are running Linux and are heavy users of C++ > for their quant work. They build their models in a variety of languages > like Python, Haskell, OCaml, R, etc, then go all the way down to C++/Java > for efficiency. I've already seen some interest in F# from the financial > industry, but the fact that it's limited to Windows/.NET discourages these > people to take a further step. > > From my point of view, these people are tired of Java and C++, they would > rather be deploying their models directly to production in a single > environment. With a good, fast and stable implementation, I think F# has > the strength to bring that.
That already happened on Windows but only because .NET is fast. My F# code beats vendor-tuned Fortran on .NET. On Mono, I'm lucky if F# runs as fast as interpreted OCaml bytecode. I share your dream but, realistically, it is never going to happen. > Microsoft is not building F# because it's a pretty little thing, they are > trying to bring a strong platform for financial and scientific industry. On Windows. -- Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
