OT: interesting talk by Jane Street technical guy on why they used Ocaml

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Saturday, 3 October 2015 at 15:58:38 UTC, Mengu wrote:
> On Saturday, 3 October 2015 at 01:41:55 UTC, Laeeth Isharc 
> wrote:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKcOkWzj0_s
>>
>> a little old but still relevant.  talks about importance of 
>> brevity and strong types for readability (also avoiding 
>> boilerplate).  two of the partners there committed to read 
>> every line of code (originally because they were terrified).  
>> very hard to code review boilerplate carefully because it is 
>> just too dull!
>>  (can't pay people enough!)
>>
>> [...]
>
> there's also andy smith's talk [0] at dconf 2015 on adapting D, 
> titled "hedge fund development case study."
>
> [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KBhb0iWsWQ

Thanks!  Funnily enough I rewatched the Jane Street talk because 
of a suggestion made by John Colvin when I was talking to Andy 
and him recently.  It's a good talk by Andy, and I hope to build 
on this with him at Codemesh next month.

The way languages actually get adopted is different from how 
people who are sitting in eg the kind of enterprise environment 
where they are never going to be early adopters imagine.  Hence 
one is much better off focusing efforts on those already 
receptive (and who are looking for a solution to their pain) than 
trying to convert those who are happy with what they have or 
uninterested (possibly rationally so) in exploring new things.

Being able to understand the codebase is underrated I think.