Ocaml and Jane street capital - making the case for a specialized, niche language for financial services applications (hedge fund trading to me and you)

An interesting take from Jane street capital re. their (pretty substantial) investment in Ocaml. whilst a lot of hedgies work with VB and excel combo, there is an interesting case to be made for fast, functional languages like caml. this sure would be fun coding in c++ :) incidentally, microsoft's f# is based, essentially on caml, and i understand a number of alternative investment group tech is being built on it, since its going to be a fully supported part of .NET one of their papers on the topic: http://www.janestreetcapital.com/minsky_weeks-jfp_18.pdf