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We used to talk longingly about using strongly typed languages when I was at an IB. We mostly used perl for munging data and SAS for actual heavy lifting. It wo
by joshu 16y ago
We used to talk longingly about using strongly typed languages when I was at an IB. We mostly used perl for munging data and SAS for actual heavy lifting. It would have been great to have the compiler yell at me for adding a return to a dollar value or whatever.
- chrisaycock 16y agoWere you at ETL? The prop group I was in at Morgan used q/kdb+, which was great for a lot of things but did cause some trip-ups that static typing would have prevented. My group eventually shut down and I left the firm, but I had heard Morgan was looking into F# to use company-wide. (I used Ada in a previous life, so I know full-well the benefits of strong typing.)
- joshu 16y agoYup. Heard they were doing the F# thing too, but can't see them getting away from unix...