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I used to work in financial services, and functional programming was a very new and alien concept there, even in 2016.
by adgasf 10y ago
I used to work in financial services, and functional programming was a very new and alien concept there, even in 2016.
- willtim 10y agoNot in all banks. Standard Chartered and Barclays have probably the largest Haskell codebases in existence. Many others are investing in Scala (e.g. Morgan Stanley). It's probably more of an alien concept to the likes of Google and Amazon.
- jghn 10y agoGoogle has a fair amount of clojure, or at least they did at one point of time, although it was inherited from an acquisition.
- willtim 10y agoAh yes Clojure, Citigroup had a team of 70+ fulltime Clojure developers in Credit last I heard. The examples I'm giving are all strategic commitments to FP by senior management. The Google situation sounds more likely to be viewed as a "problem" by them as (last I heard), Clojure was not on their white list.