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Re:Why are there no big applications written using functiona... by yummyfajitas on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @09:22AM (#1148024)
Functional programming is not that uncommon in the financial sector.

Jane St. Capital uses Ocaml, and I know of a hedge fund that uses Mathematica. Goldman's high frequency trading code is written in Erlang and much of their ordinary trading code is done in Slang (their proprietary programming language).

Further, a number of places do functional programming in C++.

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Re:Why are there no big applications written using functiona... by pohl on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @10:21AM (#1148151)
Future HN headline: The Role Functional Programming Played in Wrecking the Economy.
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Re:Why are there no big applications written using functiona... by yummyfajitas on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @10:34AM (#1148179)
Functional programming convinced millions of people to overvalue their homes and become real estate speculators?
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