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Interesting, thanks for your perspective! Regarding speed, I suspect there might be more to the story since so many finance firms [1] are known to use Haskell
by benrbray 6y ago
Interesting, thanks for your perspective! Regarding speed, I suspect there might be more to the story since so many finance firms [1] are known to use Haskell internally. Perhaps they're not using it for anything speed-critical, though.
[1] https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_in_industry https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_in_industry
- proverbialbunny 6y agoKeep in mind finance is not quantitative finance. (edit: I just realized I didn't specify above. I'm doing quant work.) In finance (and quant work) you don't want a mistake. You want what you code to have provability, so you know what you write is what you get. This is super important. Speed in pure finance is not important. In quantitative finance the common practice today is companies roll out their own programming language that has provability like Haskell, but is closer to the speed of C++. These languages tend to be a big closer to lisp than Haskell, but it depends from company to company.