[Haskell-cafe] Why are OCaml and Haskell being used at these companies?

[Laurent Deniau]

Henning Thielemann wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Jon Harrop wrote:
> 
>> On Tuesday 13 November 2007 08:41, Henning Thielemann wrote:
>>> On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Jon Harrop wrote:
>>>> Penetration is highest in parts of industry where small groups of
>>>> talented programmers get together, most notably startups. Look at
>>>> XenSource, Wolfram Research, The MathWorks,
>>> ?? Mathematica and MatLab are just the opposite of statically safe
>>> programming.
>> Absolutely. I was referring to a prototype Mathematica JIT compiler (developed
>> in OCaml),
> 
> interesting
> 
>> the FFT routines in MATLAB (FFTW: written in OCaml) and the SML software
>> that The MathWorks sell.
> 
> I see, but FFTW was not developed by MathWorks, but by Matteo Frigo and
> Steven G. Johnson (says fftw.org),

Right, and it is not written in OCaml but in C. The OCaml code 
_generates_ optimized C code for the arch where it matters.

a+, ld.