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How about a thread on F#? The good the bad and the ugly for trading kind of thing... I know I'm going to get into it eventually if just out of intellectual curiosity.
from what I saw of f# it looks like a spin off of ocaml. Or maybe its a ML dialect. I spent some time with ocaml (couple years) and like its syntax over the other functional languages (haskel, lisp, erlang). The only problem with these languages is that there is not a lot of libraries/info. so you end up with smarter people but they are reinventing the wheel. As an example, anyone can grab some java jars and put together a nice app without really knowing what they are doing.
Ohh I'm sorry, it was a request for you to make a thread on it as it relates to trading Rereading what I wrote does sound like a really dumb question if F# would be ok in the sub forum. It would seem to me the functional languages would make alot more sense naturally for programming trading systems but live in an object orientated world so that path seems alien. I've always wanted to try to learn Lisp to see how it would be to program a system but the unreality of ever bringing a system online with Lisp has kept me away. F# seems like real world Lisp, but lisp/scheme is the only functional language I'm familiar with.