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by b20000 1520 days ago
why do you guys use Caml?
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that seems to be a presentation about language features. I'm mostly interested in the business reasons for using the language within what jane street does, and how the language offers a competitive advantage and why it is "good enough" for the highly competitive HFT landscape they work in.
The language features are the competitive advantage.
Because Java is not the be-all and end-all.
why use java when you have c++?
So you can use Clojure. ;-)