[Haskell-cafe] why are trading/banking industries seriously adopting FPLs???

[Vasili I. Galchin]

Hi Neil,

    Can you go into more detail about the intrusion detection software you
wrote, e..g how it used iteratees and DSLs(even not directly impl. in
Haskell)??

Thanks,

Vasili

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Neil Davies
<semanticphilosopher at gmail.com>wrote:

> Trustworthiness
>
> It provides the means of constructing systems that can be reasoned about,
> in which the risks of mistakes can be assessed, in which concurrency can be
> exploited without compromising those properties.
>
> I once sat on a plane with a guy who ran a company that made software to
> move money around markets, he was really pleased that they could handle up
> to 60 transactions a second. They would take a money moment (say $5B) split
> it into 'maximum risk units' and engage in the conversion between the two
> currencies. Given the nature of the distributed transaction, the way in
> which the commitment process operated what was *really* important was
> managing the overall risk of currency fluctuation in the partially completed
> distributed transactions. His typical employee at the time (this was about
> 8-10 years ago) was a good PhD in quantum chromodynamics - they had the
> ability to think about the 'all possible futures' that the code had to
> handle. (yes I did my FP evangelisation bit)
>
> That company, with today's Haskell, could start from a simple, obviously
> correct, description of the issues and evolve a solution - knowing that,
> with equational reasoning, referential transparency and other properties,
> the transformations were 'safe'. Doesn't mean you don't test - does mean you
> can do more with your good staff.
>
> I've used some of the techniques that are in the haskell libraries (esp.
> iteratee's and dsl's) in developing s/w for intrustion detection companies
> in the past - granted they were not actually running GHC code - but
> specialised C coming out of a DSL
>
> Neil
>
>
> On 25 Mar 2011, at 07:08, Vasili I. Galchin wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>      I am very curious about the readiness of trading and banking
> industries to adopt FPLs like Haskell:
> http://talenteze.catsone.com/careers/index.php?m=portal&a=details&jobOrderID=466095.... I currently work in the computer security(intrusion detection). My
> colleagues are totally ignorant concerning the foundations/motivations of
> FPLs. (Ironically http://www.galois.com participates in the computer
> security arena!). Why are are trading/banking diving into FPLs?
>
> Regards,
>
> Vasili
> _______________________________________________
> Haskell-Cafe mailing list
> Haskell-Cafe at haskell.org
> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/attachments/20110325/aa51943d/attachment.htm>