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Re: We are moving into the quantitative finance industry by tdees40 on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @07:38PM (#7181230)
If by "heavily" you mean there are a few notable (and exciting!) projects out there, then sure. But what percentage of working quants code in Haskell ever? Probably <5%.
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Re: We are moving into the quantitative finance industry by judk on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @10:54PM (#7181792)
What's 5% of say $100B? Nothing to sneeze at, I'd say.
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Re: We are moving into the quantitative finance industry by Sssnake on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @11:18PM (#7181864)
I don't see what that has to do with anything. You made a bizarre assumption that the financial world is hard for haskell to break into, when both history and the current behavior of financial firms says otherwise.
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