> Investment banking isn't likely to lead to improvements in zygohistomorphic > prepromorphisms.
Given that an investment bank could (purely hypothetically of course.... ;-) use - say - paramorphisms as their fundamental approach to processing a deeply-embedded DSEL, I wouldn't be too quick to rule them out of improvements to recursion combinators... And, more generally, Investment Banking has interesting problems to solve, smart people working there, and a willingness to use (and improve) cutting-edge technology. IMHO, all of these are good things. --Ben On 10 Aug 2010, at 19:56, wren ng thornton wrote: > Henning Thielemann wrote: >> about functional programming jobs in investment banking ... >> Ketil Malde schrieb: >>> Tom Hawkins <tomahawk...@gmail.com> writes: >>>> (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. >> I'm not sure I follow this opinion in general. Analogously I could say: >> Supporting military is a good idea, since they invest in new >> technologies. That's not my opinion. Maybe the next financial crisis >> leads us into the next world war. > > But that analogy is a bit disingenuous. If investment bankers care so much > about performance (because a few milliseconds delay in transactions can cost > a lot) then getting a lot of talented functional programmers in finance means > there will be a good deal of work in figuring out how to improve performance. > Thus, anyone who wants performance will benefit directly; regardless of > attendant outcomes. > > While the military invests in technology, they invest mainly in technology > that advances a particular goal. Thus, it's good for them to have smart > people if you would like improvements to that particular kind of technology. > (Which includes the Internet and natural language processing ---for very > militaristic reasons, both of them---, as well as the obvious.) Investment > banking isn't likely to lead to improvements in zygohistomorphic > prepromorphisms. If that's where you think we need to be improving our > technology, then having smart people in investment banking doesn't help. But > that's a different claim than the claim that they'd improve performance or > overall acceptance in the job market. > > -- > Live well, > ~wren > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe