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What's new is that they are using FP instead of C++ to deliver results quickly and more reliably. These aren't the quants from the 90s that were Physics PhDs a
by crb002 11y ago
What's new is that they are using FP instead of C++ to deliver results quickly and more reliably.
These aren't the quants from the 90s that were Physics PhDs applying the latest and greatest in differential equations and whatnot. These are programmers who know how to make the complier do more work for them so they achieve results faster.
- hackercomplex 11y agoFast execution with very terse code, and also the code that is produced by a diciplined OCaml programmer can be easier to grok in many situations because it may read close to what the math formulas look like on paper relative to other languages. To be honest this is the same argument people make for Haskell and I'm only assuming the argument applies to OCaml equally well.
- Ericson2314 11y agoYay FP! I wish the article had made clear that the OCaml was a programming language. Could be some proprietary junk GUI the way it was actually written.