I did a search on F# and found nothing on ET. I find that interesting. I have decided to dedicated myself to learning it. Seems very straightforward. let the |> fun begin
Yes, it's quite surprising. It's not unknown in the industry, though. CS does all (?) of their modeling in it. It's very well suited for trading, and a joy to program in. It lends itself nicely to concurrent programming.
I wouldnt say CS does all there modeling in f#. For the functional crowd, I have seen ocaml, scala, erlang, and haskell used at well known firms. But no one just sits and uses one language anymore.
Yes, I would assume so. However; they hired a team of F# programmers a few years back, and it is their main modeling language now. It's because of institutions like CS that F# moved beyond the research level at Microsoft. http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000006794 As a mathematician, I find F# very pleasant to use. Sadly, there are many programmers who seem determined to miss out on the joys of functional programming. Apparently too few have read SICP...
I just want to clarify that I was referring to the GMAG London division of CS, as I was being imprecise earlier.