Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why are OCaml and Haskell being used at these companies?
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) record crunching... buying software packge also make little sense for them, because the very nature of the job is to develop new models to play around market inefficiencies, or just against competitors models... if everybody would have the same ( model, package), they would be out of business... time to market is key, reliability too , and the kind of guy they hire ( quant analyst) have the brain to learn new languages , so this is not the same problem as turning an army of cobolist into java. also, the very expressive nature of functiunal programming blends very wells with maths, better than record crunching... if you add on top grid computing and parralelism... ( monte carlo is not only a casino in the south of france. for these guys...) so they are small elite teams..that fits well with visionary products... do not expect it to be a lead to mass expansion for tommorow, these people are already living in a ivory tower compared to their peers retail-bankers... -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Why-are-OCaml-and-Haskell-being-used-at-these-companies--tf4793477.html#a13744123 Sent from the Haskell - Haskell-Cafe mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Ideas
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, so definitively this is the topic of the day !!) fyi, the cabal run (runghc) could not find the Diff file ( in the same directory anyway) o_o but ghc --make PanDocwiki.hs had it ok.) John MacFarlane wrote: lcs can be found at http://urchin.earth.li/darcs/igloo/lcs/ +++ Luc TAESCH [Aug 26 07 23:45 ]: when building , i cannot find the lcs mentionned in the cabal file not on hasckage nor on goggle. could you help? ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Ideas-tf4327747.html#a12344039 Sent from the Haskell - Haskell-Cafe mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Ideas
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 toying with the idea to - produce book, nicely (automatically) typeset with Latex or docbook - out of a wiki as interface ( as wikibook for instance) - with either free and informal text , - or formally ( automatically produced) sets or reference or docs ( a bit like literate programming embed code into the text), but these table would be more and more refined set of requirement.. This last point was with a software ingeniering backgroud in mind, ie to produce the requirement, and specification of software, , imagine a lot of reference and cross reference to manage, and to establish tracability..( if you heard about Cleanroom, just to examplify ) may i ask you what did you had in mind as an application when you started that ? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Ideas-tf4327747.html#a12337130 Sent from the Haskell - Haskell-Cafe mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell vs GC'd imperative languages, threading, parallelizeability (is that a word? :-D )
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 August , for $435. affordable... short : http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/20/1830221 longuer : http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=761947 -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Haskell-vs-GC%27d-imperative-languages%2C-threading%2C-parallelizeability-%28is-that-a-word--%3A-D-%29-tf4247108.html#a12271924 Sent from the Haskell - Haskell-Cafe mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
