[Pl-seminar] Semantics Seminar Schedule

[Mitchell Wand]

NU Programming Languages Seminar
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
12:00-1:30  
Room 108 WVH (http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/directions.html)

** NOTE NON-STANDARD TIME AND ROOM **
** This is a joint presentation with the NU ACM Student Chapter **
** Come on time if you want a seat, and pizza **

Caml Trading
Yaron Minsky
Jane St. Capital

Jane Street Capital is a successful proprietary trading company that has
shifted from developing software in mainstream programming languages to
developing software almost entirely in OCaml, a statically typed
functional programming language that has only modest industrial use. The
scope of the enterprise is small but growing: Jane Street now has over
25 OCaml programmers who have collectively written hundreds of
thousands of lines of OCaml code. OCaml is used for building everything
from trading systems to research infrastructure to user interfaces to
systems administration tools. This talk will discuss the motivations
behind Jane Street's adoption of OCaml, and why we think that statically
typed functional programming languages are such a good fit for the world
of trading and finance.

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Upcoming Events:

# Wed 4/9 open
# Wed 4/16 Nikolaos Papaspyrou: Continuations for Prototyping
  Concurrent Languages

We are otherwise open.  Come give a talk!

--Mitch