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outside of Jane Street (http://www.janestreet.com/technology/ocaml.php http://www.janestreet.com/technology/ocaml.php), I've not heard of functional languages b

• pjmlp 13y ago
  In Skills That Matter presentations they sometimes refer to deployments in the city (London finance sector). You also have some use cases here, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/gg634701#Who_Uses_F_sharp http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/gg634701#Who_Uses_F_... http://fsharp.org/testimonials/ http://fsharp.org/testimonials/
  • profquail 13y ago
    It's "Skills Matter" -- they're a company that offers training events, and they handle many of the big F# training events in NYC and London: http://skillsmatter.com/ http://skillsmatter.com/
    • pjmlp 13y ago
      Oh right, thanks for the correction.
• Hansi 13y ago
  Most quants use functional programming to some degree when not locked down into C++, be it in a specifically funcational language or not. At least in London F# is commonly used in Credit Suisse, Barclays and UBS that I know of. Heard that Morgan Stanley uses it a bit too but didn't sound very widespread there.
• boothead 13y ago
  Standard chartered Credit Suisse Barclays capital Tsuru capital GSA capital Alphaheavy Edf energy trading ... Just off the top of my head :-)
• dagw 13y ago
  Barclays, HSBC and Credit Suisse are three place I know of just based on talking people who've worked there.
• davidf18 13y ago
  Novus in NYC uses scala and open sources some libraries (salat)