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		drstrangevibes on Feb 25, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LSE Halts using a immature language (f#) over unproved software stack for an international multi billion dollar low latency transactions when there are dozens of proven highly stable functional alternatives that run well on a linux platform? I can hardly believe it

IDisposableHero on Feb 25, 2011 | [–]

I don't believe it at all. Mainly because of the public statements that the new LSE trading system was written in C++.

On the other hand, it has to integrate with lots of enternal trading systems, one of which could easily be written in F#.

siika2000 on Feb 25, 2011 | [–]

That's modern enterprise computing for you.

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