Jon, Not going to happen? Heck, few years back I wouldn't say Mono would happen. Implementing the CLR, porting lots of .NET libraries without even looking at implementation details? No f*ing way. :)
It just requires work and time (= money) and passion, as everything else on earth. Hope that sometime between this year and the next one I can start contributing instead of just using it. And maybe you too! Diego Frata [email protected] On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Jon Harrop <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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