Re: F# fsharp

I know there is a company in finance that uses OCaml for that same reason:
they believes it gives them a competitive edge. Another example is Paul
Graham. He claims that using Lisp for some server software allowed his small
team to stay competitive with a big company that was using C for their
product.

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Jon Frisby <[email protected]> wrote:

> I believe he means that they perceive the productivity gains of F# as
> giving them a competitive edge versus companies that take a more
> conservative technological approach.
>
> -JF
>
> On May 25, 2010, at 2:55 PM, Mat Noguchi wrote:
>
> I don’t suppose you would know or could reveal what that “secret
> weapon”-ness is? :)
>
> MSN
> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Miguel de
> Icaza
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> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [Sweng-Gamedev] F# fsharp
>
>
> I wonder how the politics of that will shake out in practice.  I can
> definitely see other team members / leadership being afraid of the new
> stuff that they don't understand, the potential production impact,
> etc.
>
>
> We have noticed that F# is being quickly adopted by four groups: applied
> sciences, defense, banking and science/research.
>
> All fields with fairly sophisticated users.
>
> FWIW, In the banking sector, many of our users consider their use of F#
> their "secret weapon" against competitors.
>
> Miguel.
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