From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F2A3BC37 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:44:58 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Aj8BAA96iUrLOwFri2dsb2JhbACbAgEBAQoLCgcRBroghBkF X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.43,398,1246831200"; d="scan'208";a="31251982" Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out2.iinet.net.au ([203.59.1.107]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 18 Aug 2009 00:44:56 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEAId6iUrLzuai/2dsb2JhbADVXIQZBQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.43,398,1246809600"; d="scan'208";a="552427734" Received: from unknown (HELO hendrix.mega-nerd.net) ([203.206.230.162]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out2.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 18 Aug 2009 06:44:53 +0800 Received: from hendrix.mnn (hendrix.mnn [192.168.200.99]) by hendrix.mega-nerd.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 8B8F01070D9 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:44:52 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:44:52 +1000 From: Erik de Castro Lopo To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Jane Street is hiring (as if you didn't already know) Message-Id: <20090818084452.f9df0801.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> In-Reply-To: <3c1674c90908171430m12c4a3e7pa96cc5e60df72b17@mail.gmail.com> References: <1250027407.4019.123.camel@nyc-qws-007.delacy.com> <200908171459.01872.toots@rastageeks.org> <7c737f300908171302q6c251441u35ed3bd99552bd46@mail.gmail.com> <200908171526.52574.toots@rastageeks.org> <3c1674c90908171430m12c4a3e7pa96cc5e60df72b17@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: caml-list@inria.fr Organization: Erik Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.16.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 haskell:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 functional:02 programming:03 erik:04 erik:04 startup:05 written:07 i'm:09 body:89 mle:13 but:14 Matthew Macy wrote: > I don't anticipate ever doing functional programming professionally Why ever not? I'm at a small VC funded startup and I use Ocaml and Haskell for production code on a regular basis. We have a small but growing collection of code written in langauges that are a joy to work with and way more robust and debuggable than the larger body of C and C++ code we have. Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/