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Re:Yammer moving from Scala to Java by reginaldo on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @09:37PM (#3293397)
nuclear control systems are prototyped by experts in haskell

Do you have any source to back that (honest question)?

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Re:Yammer moving from Scala to Java by fpgeek on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @10:20PM (#3293516)
It might be a pun referencing Atom ( http://hackage.haskell.org/package/atom-1.0.11 ) which is used for control systems, but not nuclear ones, AFAIK
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Re:Yammer moving from Scala to Java by wtracy on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @06:00AM (#3294634)
I honestly suspect that kind of stuff is more likely to be done in Ada.
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Re:Yammer moving from Scala to Java by gtani on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @12:34AM (#3293897)
not a nuclear control system, but embedded monitor (slide 26:

http://www.galois.com/~leepike/fm-galois.pdf

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Re:Yammer moving from Scala to Java by dustingetz on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @12:52AM (#3293954)
nah, no sources, but its the quintessential application of haskell
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Re:Yammer moving from Scala to Java by spaznode on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @10:13PM (#3293504)
C. For the non-control and more fucking your shit up systems
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