Re: F# fsharp
Jon Frisby <[email protected]>
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Orbitz is the company that is/was using Lisp. http://www.paulgraham.com/carl.html -JF On May 25, 2010, at 3:13 PM, Nisarg Kothari wrote: > 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 >> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 11:00 AM >> 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. >> _______________________________________________ >> Sweng-Gamedev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.midnightryder.com/listinfo.cgi/sweng-gamedev-midnightryder.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Sweng-Gamedev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.midnightryder.com/listinfo.cgi/sweng-gamedev-midnightryder.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Sweng-Gamedev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.midnightryder.com/listinfo.cgi/sweng-gamedev-midnightryder.com _______________________________________________ Sweng-Gamedev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.midnightryder.com/listinfo.cgi/sweng-gamedev-midnightryder.com