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