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Re:Coders who trade: Wall Street designs its staff for the f... by tomrod on Friday November 17, 2017 @09:51PM (#15727539)
Huh. I see C++, Java, and Python as the go-to languages with my wall-street programming and modeling acquaintances. Very little esoterica.
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Re:Coders who trade: Wall Street designs its staff for the f... by stochastic_monk on Friday November 17, 2017 @11:27PM (#15727750)
Jane Street's famous for its obsession with OCaml.
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Re:Coders who trade: Wall Street designs its staff for the f... by sulam on Saturday November 18, 2017 @12:31AM (#15727891)
Honestly, OCaml is hardly esoteric. It's not a major language, but it's not a specialty language either. I'd put it in the same category as Elm, Erlang, or even something like Julia. Scala takes a ton of inspiration from OCaml, to the point where you pretty much feel like you know one if you know the other (at least speaking for myself that's been true).
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