Walter's DConf 2014 Talks - Topics in Finance

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On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 08:54:46 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> Am 22.03.2014 09:42, schrieb Ziad Hatahet:
>> On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Paulo Pinto 
>> <pjmlp at progtools.org
>> <mailto:pjmlp at progtools.org>> wrote:
>>
>>    Yes, as there are a few  high performance trading systems 
>> done with
>>    JVM/.NET languages.
>>
>>    --
>>    Paulo
>>
>>
>> What about AAA games? :) Even though I agree with the pro-GC 
>> arguments
>> you put forth, but I really have a hard time imagining 
>> something like
>> Battlefield 4 written in Java and running on the JVM (though I 
>> would
>> love to be proven wrong).
>
> What about ballistic missile tracking radar control systems?
>
> http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aHLFBJZrqaoM
>
> You don't want those babies out of control.
>
> --
> Paulo

Ah Thales... I hope they are better at writing software for 
missiles than they are at tram management systems.