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article in HPC Wire lists industrial uses of Haskell, several of which I hadn't heard before. The article profiles Peter Braam, founder of Parallel Scientific. Spotted by Hans Wolfgang Loidl.
Arguably, Google and Facebook have brought more attention to Haskell
in recent years, but there are a number of other notable uses that
highlight Braam’s confidence in the functional language. For instance,
Chicago-based Allston Trading, a high frequency trading company, uses
Haskell in their trading infrastructure. AT&T is using it in their
Network Security group to automate internet abuse complaint processing.
Bank of American is using it in their backend data transformation and
loading system and Credit Suisse’s Global Modeling and Analytics Group
has been using it since 2006 to improve modeler productivity and open
access to those models across the organization.
Biotech giant Amgen also uses Haskell for math-heavy models and to
“break developers out of their development rut by giving them a new way
to think about software. According to the company’s David Balaban, “Our
experience is that using functional programming reduces the critical
conceptual distance between thought/algorithms design and code.” But the
real value says Balaban is the level of correctness they’ve been able
to achieve.
As Amgen’s Balaban says “we
have been able to develop code quickly and verify--to an applied
mathematician’s satisfaction--the correctness of Haskell code
straightforwardly; we have yet to achieve this with more traditional
mainstream languages.”
That graphic makes it look as if most of the programs that work can't be written in Haskell. Maybe the Haskell circle should be just as big as the "code that works" circle?
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