[Haskell-cafe] why are trading/banking industries seriously adopting FPLs???

2011-03-25 Thread Vasili I. Galchin
Hello, I am very curious about the readiness of trading and banking industries to adopt FPLs like Haskell: http://talenteze.catsone.com/careers/index.php?m=portala=detailsjobOrderID=466095 I currently work in the computer security(intrusion detection). My colleagues are totally ignorant

Re: [Haskell-cafe] why are trading/banking industries seriously adopting FPLs???

2011-03-25 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Vasili I. Galchin wrote: I am very curious about the readiness of trading and banking industries to adopt FPLs like Haskell: http://talenteze.catsone.com/careers/index.php?m=portala=detailsjobOrderID=466095 I currently work in the computer security(intrusion detection). I worked in

Re: [Haskell-cafe] why are trading/banking industries seriously adopting FPLs???

2011-03-25 Thread Neil Davies
Trustworthiness It provides the means of constructing systems that can be reasoned about, in which the risks of mistakes can be assessed, in which concurrency can be exploited without compromising those properties. I once sat on a plane with a guy who ran a company that made software to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] why are trading/banking industries seriously adopting FPLs???

2011-03-25 Thread Ketil Malde
Vasili I. Galchin vigalc...@gmail.com writes: I am very curious about the readiness of trading and banking industries to adopt FPLs like Haskell: Yes, I've noticed that, too. And it goes both ways - it's an industry of which the computer science crowd tends to be unaware as well. Some

Re: [Haskell-cafe] why are trading/banking industries seriously adopting FPLs???

2011-03-25 Thread Vasili I. Galchin
Hi Neil, Can you go into more detail about the intrusion detection software you wrote, e..g how it used iteratees and DSLs(even not directly impl. in Haskell)?? Thanks, Vasili On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Neil Davies semanticphilosop...@gmail.comwrote: Trustworthiness It provides

Re: [Haskell-cafe] why are trading/banking industries seriously adopting FPLs???

2011-03-25 Thread Albert Y. C. Lai
On 11-03-25 03:08 AM, Vasili I. Galchin wrote: I am very curious about the readiness of trading and banking industries to adopt FPLs like Haskell: Not only FPL and not only Haskell, but also descendents of APL such as J. Generally also any innovation. Why are they willing to try out

Re: [Haskell-cafe] why are trading/banking industries seriously adopting FPLs???

2011-03-25 Thread Tom Murphy
Why can they assess the risk and the probable benefits of trying out another innovation and can contain the risk? Because they can do that of almost anything. They are surviving investors. Trying out another innovation is just another investment, not unlike trying out another stock, another