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Could be. I'm not in finance personally, just rattling the grapvine. That said, the theory isn't bad: Lennart Augustsson, Don Stewart, and Neil Mitchell are all
by tel 13y ago
Could be. I'm not in finance personally, just rattling the grapvine. That said, the theory isn't bad: Lennart Augustsson, Don Stewart, and Neil Mitchell are all in the UK I believe.
I think the story still holds though: financial analysts are provided an upgrade path from Excel to Excel+Haskell backend, to Haskell embedded DSLs. The same sort of game might be happening with S&P in Boston.
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoBack in the 90s, Objective C (used for iPhones today) and other Smalltalks were big in Manhattan's financial scene. Scala is also being pushed in finance today by some boutique firms in Europe. And then there is of course Common Lisp... This isn't that strange or unusual at all, the languages just sort of appear and get some local mass going, but nothing catches on globally.