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If the LSE were using F# we'd have heard a lot more about it already. For instance, from Microsoft.
by timrobinson 16y ago
If the LSE were using F# we'd have heard a lot more about it already. For instance, from Microsoft.
- viraptor 16y agoMaybe not if they were using F# on mono. Their PR would have to work very hard to put this in a way that doesn't say "LSE is using our language on a foreign platform using a completely alternative implementation, which has nothing to do with us apart some ECMA specs - and they're still successful without MS involvement. Yes, we just confirmed that you can trust your highly critical .NET environment to the alternative versions of runtime."
- timrobinson 16y agoOK, I wouldn't expect an official press release like this from Microsoft head office. But the team in Microsoft Research are (a) keen to promote their language (people like Don and Brian often help early adopters personally) and (b) supportive of Mono (they've always released a .zip file for Mono at the same time as their Windows installers).
- IDisposableHero 16y agoThey have publicly stated that the system is written in C++ on Suse Linux. http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/open-source/3260727/london-stock-exchange-in-historic-linux-go-live/# http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/open-source/3260727/lond...
- alecco 16y agoI wouldn't believe 100% in those statements.
- IDisposableHero 16y agoTrue enough. If the statement turns out to be not entirely correct, that would be news. I suspect that if there is any F# code, it's in a 3rd party system that talks to the stock exchange. There are lots of those due to the nature of an exchange, though they should all talk over the standard FIX protocol.
- chollida1 16y ago> I wouldn't believe 100% in those statements. Why not? What makes you think this is a lie?
- alecco 16y agoThey systematically cover the problems and have zero transparency. Never a post-mortem. Like back in January.