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"Simon Peyton-Jones is another heavy hitter at MSR." If F# does well, I have to wonder if a sanctioned dialect of Haskell for the CLR is in the making. The onl
by bpyne 16y ago
"Simon Peyton-Jones is another heavy hitter at MSR."
If F# does well, I have to wonder if a sanctioned dialect of Haskell for the CLR is in the making. The only thing giving me doubt is that I can't think up a business case for it. OCaml has an audience in the financial world which gives MS a business case for F#. Having F# already, what would an H# give them?
- mwerty 16y ago> OCaml has an audience in the financial world Who besides Jane St?
- gaius 16y agoJob ads would suggest CSFB.
- bpyne 16y agoIt's not a huge audience but Jane Street and CSFB make for an important audience that can introduce functional programming languages into the financial world. Couple it with MS's marketing and end-to-end IDE/infrastructure pieces and it becomes a disruptive technology.