Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why are OCaml and Haskell being used at these companies?

2007-11-14 Thread luc.taesch
well, I generally read more than post on the list, but being in investment banking ( for 20 years), this one is too hard to resist... The kind of job these guys do is highly mathematical ( quantitative analysis) as opposed to traditional banking or Back Offices where th job is (not so clever)

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Ideas

2007-08-27 Thread luc.taesch
All went finally fine. wiki is live. thanks for your help. great example. this helped me progressing my understanding of happs. This should conveniently go on the happs tutorial wiki., or at least be referred to . (I have seen alex is doing some tutorial on a wiki in the latest head release,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Ideas

2007-08-26 Thread luc.taesch
John MacFarlane wrote: +++ Andrew Coppin [Aug 25 07 12:50 ]: I wrote a simple wiki using HAppS and pandoc. See demonstration #15 on the pandoc web page: http://sophos.berkeley.edu/macfarlane/pandoc/examples.html o Hey ! that s exactly whatI had in mind.. cool indeed, I am

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell vs GC'd imperative languages, threading, parallelizeability (is that a word? :-D )

2007-08-22 Thread luc.taesch
Hugh Perkins wrote: Threading is going to become a major issue soon, maybe not tomorrow, but there is a GPL'd Niagara 2 out with 64 threads (I think?), so the time is now... I didn t know what was niagara 2, and by researching , I also found about tilera, a 64 CORE issued that