[Haskell-cafe] Strings in Haskell

[jeff p]

Hello,

On 1/23/07, Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com> wrote:
> Tim Docker wrote:
>
> > I'm not aware of any ongoing haskell work in finance, other that
> > some private work being done by Alain Cremieux, reported in the HCAR.
>
> Lennart Augustsson works for Credit Suisse, using a Haskell DSEL to
> generate financial models for execution by clusters running Excel.
> (This I gleaned from him in IRC the other day; apologies to Lennart if I
> misremember the specifics.)
>
> I believe that Goldman Sachs might be using Haskell, too, but I don't
> know for sure (they have at least one ex-Yale FRP person, at any rate).
>
> Wall Street has long had a fondness for esoteric technologies (APL,
> Linda, you name it).  I'm sure there are more Haskell users lurking
> there somewhere.
>
I work at Deutsche Bank. I am using Haskell to manage several
databases, using HDBC and HAppS, and do some data mining and (light)
numerical calculation.

-Jeff