Tom Hawkins <tomahawk...@gmail.com> writes: >> Second, I would like to know what exactly is bad about a Haskell >> job in investment banking as a lot of good programmers work in this >> industry.
> It's disproportionate. 95% of the job offerings in functional > programming are with investment firms. I believe investment banking > is important, but does it really need to dominate a large percentage > of the world's top tier programmers? I suspect it is because it is an industry where software performance matters. Doing things just a bit better than your competitors can make all the difference (and a big difference) to the bottom line. Thus it is an industry that is willing to invest in new technology. Most other industry seems to be conservative; nobody got fired for choosing IBM, nobody gets criticized for choosing Java. Being good enough is usually sufficient, you don't have to be best, or even better. > Is computing the risk of derivative contracts more important than > pursuing sustainable energy, new drug discovery, improving crop > yields, etc. More important? - I don't know. More willing to invest in software quality - apparently. > (Yes, I realize that's were the money is [...]) Exactly. I don't think this is bad: having talented people recruited to work on functional programming will improve the technology for all of us. -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
