RE: Combinator library gets software prize

2001-01-21 Thread Ashley Yakeley
At 2001-01-21 10:57, David Bakin wrote: >What's a 'quant' ... >and is it good or bad to be one? I think that depends on exactly how much of a quant you are. -- Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA ___ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell

RE: Combinator library gets software prize

2001-01-21 Thread David Bakin
This article is very good, and having read the conference paper earlier in the year I finished it with only one question: What's a 'quant' ... and is it good or bad to be one? "Ten years ago, Jean-Marc Eber, then a quant at Société Générale, ..." -- Dave -Original Message- From

Re: Combinator library gets software prize

2001-01-21 Thread Laurent Guerby
I don't know if Simon mentionned it but I found his & al. paper proceedings of the fifth ACM SIGPLAN international conference on on Functional programming, "Composing contracts: an adventure in financial engineering (functional pearl) Pages 280-292" very interesting: http://www.acm.org/pubs/citat

Combinator library gets software prize

2001-01-21 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
You might enjoy this article, in Risk Magazine, a journal of the financial engineering industry. Combinators in the real world! http://www.risk.net/riskawards2001/softwareproduct.htm Simon ___ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell