Smalltalk and Haskell share an interesting property:
they support integer and rational calculations without arbitrary limits.
Recording money in cents, 32 bits gives you ±$21,474,836.47, which is
not a large sum of money to the industries in question. OK, 64 bits
effectively solves that problem,
I am very curious about the readiness of trading and banking
industries to adopt FPLs like Haskell:
.. Why are are trading/banking diving into FPLs?
Some possible reasons have been given, but to keep things
in perspective, you might want to consider that it isn't just
FPLs. Smalltalk, for
