Re: F# fsharp

I always find it amusing when Paul Graham (or Crash Bandicot for that
matter) gets dragged out of the closet and dusted off whenever somebody
wants to show how functional languages "gives you an edge".
 
There are thousands of successful products (including games) programmed
in non-functional programming languages and only an extremely limited
set of successful products programmed in functional languages. There
aren't many examples to pick from. So that's why people still talk about
Paul Graham today many many years after he became mightily impressed
with his own LISP skills and started bragging about it on his website.
 
And hey don't get me wrong. I am having great fun programming in LISP,
Clojure and Erlang in my spare time and I would highly recommend that
you learn those languages even if you don't intend to use those
languages to make a living. However I still choose C++ or C# for
production work.
 
Morten

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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
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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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