On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 15:44, Erik de Castro Lopo<mle+oc...@mega-nerd.com> wrote: > Matthew Macy wrote: > >> I don't anticipate ever doing functional programming professionally > > Why ever not? > > I'm at a small VC funded startup and I use Ocaml and Haskell > for production code on a regular basis. We have a small but > growing collection of code written in langauges that are a > joy to work with and way more robust and debuggable than the > larger body of C and C++ code we have.
When I re-sent the e-mail under my subscribed address I should have further clarified my statement. If my initial e-mail address had been allowed through it would have been self-evident. All of my professional time is spent doing things like lock pushdown in the network stack, identifying and eliminating false sharing between structures, minimizing lock contention in the file system, 10GigE network drivers etc. All of which is done in 'C' and will be for the foreseeable future. Consequently, there is a gap between my areas of expertise and the areas where functional programming comes in to play. Thus, unless I shift my work in to one of those areas or pick up a side project there I don't see how Ocaml could play a large role in my life. My interest is purely out of intellectual curiosity. I apologize for the confusion. I was not slighting functional programming - just pointing out that even though I do not have any use for the job postings I do not find them to be out of place. Cheers -- When harsh accusations depart too far from the truth, they leave bitter consequences. --Tacitus _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
