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

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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