Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> I found the following quote on LinkedIn (of all places):
>
> "Which financial firms (buyside or/and sellside) are currently actively
> using functional programming (FP) languages like F#, OCaml, Lisp, Scheme
> or Haskell?"
>
> "I keep hearing buzz around this space. I think most of Investment Banks
> have have at last research initiatives ongoing.
>
> OCaml (and F#) look to be much more promising in the realm of writing
> production systems de novo. Haskell isn't deterministic in its return
> time (it's Lazy so it may come back in 5 secs or may take 5 hours - and
> you cant really predict up front which - this is fatal for use in eg
> pricing libraries)"
>
> You heard it here folks - Haskell "isn't deterministic". :-D
>
> While obviously this statement is false (you /can/ predict run-time,
> it's just harder than you might imagine), the assertion that "this is
> fatal" is probably bang-on.

was that our OCaml/F# friend Jon Harrop? ;)

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