Maybe this would help? http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: DominicConnorStrong typing is indeed a benefit of C++, C# and JavaC/C++ are not stronlgy typed. C#/Java are. At least if you use a reasonable definition of strongly typed (or type safe). For instance the one in "Types and Programming Languages" (Pierce 2002). If your de...

<r>This might be of interesting for people planning to write a book.<URL url="http://www.collegepublications.co.ukExcerpt">www.collegepublications.co.ukExcerpt</URL> from their "about us" page... with several objectives in mind: To bring College Publications to a level with Oxford (OUP) and Cambridg...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: Y0daQuoteOriginally posted by: ferminBut you don't need to build a complex class hierarchy around that.So you feel that Mark Joshi's way of making the class hierarchy isway too much? Can you elaborate? How do you prefer to build upthese things?It's not polite to critici...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnI suppose *using* generic C# classes and their specialisations in F# should be OK. Then you can define the entities there and let F# do its work??I have not seen F# generic classes, but maybe my question is just wrongYour F# code can use, for instance, any of ...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnMy only question is if one can define generics in F#, directly? What are the productivity levels of F# compared to C++? With C#, we notice 3:1.I assume that by 'generics' you mean 'for all' polymorphism in function types and data types, as in Java generics, or...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnUnfortunately, I have only skimmed F# but it seems to support one paradigm only and for the (more pervasive) paradigms we need to interface it with C#. Not at all. Not only you can use all of the C# standard library from F#, but you also can define classes in ...

<t>Whenever I can, I use functional languages instead of object-oriented (but I do write C or C++ when I need to). One of my favourite topics of conversation is how much more code people need to write in OO style than the problem requires. For instance, consider this code in F#[<Measure>] type eur[<...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: Cuchulainn I still do not see the business model or rationale for using F# for finance. Not long ago, you could have written "I still do not see the business model or rationale for using Java for finance" and many people (but not all) would have agreed F#,Java,matlab,er...

<r>QuoteOriginally posted by: Cuchulainnfermin,have you worked with F#?A bit. I've used Ocaml (F#'s close relative) more, partly because I've programmed in the linux/unix world more than in the windows world, partly because I started using Ocaml before F# was born.QuoteLooking quickly at the languag...

<t>The annoucement for the latest F# release (2008.05.03) contains the folowing text:"Much of this has been driven by user feedback, and we'd like to say a big thank you to for all the feedback we've got from hubFS users, the F# list, F# users at Microsoft and our growing number of commercial users,...

<r>QuoteOriginally posted by: rmaxDoes anyone know of any commerically available software used for complex structures? No smart-alec comments about Excel please !I've read the academic paper about Lexifi's software (<URL url="http://www.lexifi.com">www.lexifi.com</URL>) and I like it, but I have not...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: SierpinskyJanitorHave we listed all languages developed by financial institutions in this forum yet? Heard some rumors about A+, Haskell and Slang, and I was wondering if anyone ever came up with a list of languages, OS, platforms and script-langs which have been develo...

QuoteOriginally posted by: DCFCI know of one bank who uses F#, but was wondering who else uses it much for finance ?Jane St. Capital use Ocaml. (Every once in a while they place job ads in the Ocaml mailing list.) At least one group within CSFB uses Haskell.

<r>QuoteOriginally posted by: stuntprogrammer Just saw the abstracts listed for the Commercial Users of Functional Programming (CUFP) workshop at ICFP this year. Interesting to see two finance related talks, one from Jane St on Ocaml and the other from CSFB on Haskell.<URL url="http://www.galois.com...