- this trading firm used OCaml, apparently to exclusion: http://www.janestcapital.com/yaron_minsky-cufp_2006.pdf
- they also reference the python paradox. interesting, I'll have to check into Ocaml.
- or, rather, Lisp. this article is quite convincing!
- quote: If you're trying to solve a hard problem with a language that's too low-level, you reach a point where there is just too much to keep in your head at once.
- quote: Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
- well, yes, this happened a bit in BMI with variables that were indexed by name :(
- also see this excellent, extensive article.
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