Re:Reflecting on Haskell in 2017
by danpalmer on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @08:49AM
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> It's very common for banks to have proprietary in-house scripting languages
Yeah I don't really understand this. From what I've heard, Goldman Sachs for example, have systems written in a language that no one outside of GS has used, was kinda clever in the early 90s, but hasn't really evolved since and therefore is difficult to get expertise in, and that developers working with it struggle with moving to other companies as their skills are somewhat less transferable.
Edit: at least Facebook and Google open source their internal languages/tools (Go, React, etc) so that those skills become somewhat more transferable.
Yeah I don't really understand this. From what I've heard, Goldman Sachs for example, have systems written in a language that no one outside of GS has used, was kinda clever in the early 90s, but hasn't really evolved since and therefore is difficult to get expertise in, and that developers working with it struggle with moving to other companies as their skills are somewhat less transferable.
Edit: at least Facebook and Google open source their internal languages/tools (Go, React, etc) so that those skills become somewhat more transferable.