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=0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,SPF_FAIL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 082E7BC37 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:21:22 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AmgDADkdikpQRFuwWWdsb2JhbACafgEWFb07hBkF X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.43,401,1246831200"; d="scan'208";a="32538929" Received: from furbychan.cocan.org ([80.68.91.176]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 18 Aug 2009 12:21:21 +0200 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MdLof-0001xV-Ed for caml-list@inria.fr; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:21:21 +0100 Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:21:21 +0100 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Jane Street is hiring (as if you didn't already know) Message-ID: <20090818102121.GB4353@annexia.org> 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> <20090818084452.f9df0801.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090818084452.f9df0801.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Richard Jones X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 haskell:01 ocaml:01 2009:98 wrote:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 functional:02 programming:03 erik:04 startup:05 tue:06 red:92 written:07 i'm:09 On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 08:44:52AM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > 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. We use OCaml to generate our C code :-) Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat