It should be somewhere here -> <a href="http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Video_presentations">http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Video_presentations</a><br><br>-Amir<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Lyndon Maydwell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:maydwell@gmail.com">maydwell@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I don't think I can be of much help with regards to the questions, but<br>
would you be able to post a link to the SPJ lecture?<br>
<br>
Thanks :-)<br>
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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Amiruddin Nagri <<a href="mailto:amir.nagri@gmail.com">amir.nagri@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> My current project is about making an accounting engine that handles all<br>
> the journal entries, transactions, portfolios etc. The communication<br>
> with the engine is based on simple protocol, the things to be taken<br>
> care of in the order are consistency, handling large data(performance) and<br>
> availability.<br>
><br>
> I came across a video lecture by Simon Peyton Jones where he gives an<br>
> example from Financial domain (derivatives etc) to explain how haskell is<br>
> being used and the advantages provided.<br>
><br>
> I am interested in knowing if Haskell will be the right fit for my project.<br>
> My requirements are transactional nature, which I believe is one of the<br>
> strengths of functional programming, also handling large data set and being<br>
> available. there is no such requirement for partitioning of data and the<br>
> application is going to be centrally hosted on a single server.<br>
><br>
> AFAIK OCaml and other functional languages are heavily used in financial<br>
> domain, some of the reason are same as features I am looking for.<br>
> I wanted some insight as to how Haskell is going to help me with my project.<br>
> Also there has been some concerns because of lazy evaluation in Haskell and<br>
> memory leaks associated with it.<br>
> <a href="http://jlouisramblings.blogspot.com/2010/04/haskell-vs-erlang-for-bittorent-clients.html" target="_blank">http://jlouisramblings.blogspot.com/2010/04/haskell-vs-erlang-for-bittorent-clients.html</a><br>
><br>
> Also, if you have any suggestions of the choice of programming<br>
> language, we have been looking into other functional languages like<br>
> Scala and Clojure. But we have not dig deep on the performance<br>
> aspects of these languages, if someone can shed a light on the pros-<br>
> cons of these languages, it will help us very much to come to a<br>
> decision.<br>
><br>
> -Regards,<br>
> Amir<br>
><br>
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