Algorithmic finance might be the most ruthlessly Darwinian area of industrial software, it’s way up there certainly. It’s also notoriously opaque, which makes

Algorithmic finance might be the most ruthlessly Darwinian area of industrial software, it’s way up there certainly. It’s also notoriously opaque, which makes it especially hard to know that so-and-so is wasting their time. How about “I don’t like Haskell and/or OCaml because X, I recommend Lisp instead because Y” as an alternative formulation? That one I’d be interested to read!