Le mardi 11 août 2009 16:50:07, Yaron Minsky a écrit :
> For someone who cares about functional programming, Jane Street is an
> interesting place to consider. Jane Street has invested deeply in
> OCaml, to the point where we now have the largest team of OCaml
> programmers in any industrial setting, and probably the world's
> largest OCaml codebase--over a million lines. We really believe in
> functional programming, and use OCaml for everything from research to
> systems adminstration to trading systems.
Since you wrote a long mail presenting your activity, it would also be nice to
present what you actually *do* with ocaml in this presentation. I guess when
one seeks for a job, he might also care about this aspect, in particular in
the financial world.
I think the text above does hint at the range of things we work on in OCaml, but if you want to get a better feel, there are a couple of good sources: first, there's an article that Stephen Weeks and I wrote for JFP, which you can find here:
http://janestreet.com/technology/articles.phpAlso, there's video of a talk I gave at CMU:
http://ocaml.janestreet.com/?q=node/61
It's hard to be too precise in a short missive about the kind of things we do in OCaml, because our use is so diverse. One of the things that I think speaks well for OCaml is that we have found it to be highly effective for so many different kinds of things --- whether we're writing admin tools or research codes or automated trading systems, it is our tool of choice.