[plt-dev] Re: [PRL] Programming Languages in the Code of Federal Regulations

I wonder what the OCaml folks at Jane Street Capital have to say about all this.

On Apr 27, 2010, at 03:12, Michael Sperber wrote:

> John Clements <clements at brinckerhoff.org> writes:
> 
>> Relevant background question: does anyone know how they picked Python? 
>> This information would probably tell us a lot about what it is that
>> they're looking for.
> 
> My own guess is that the guy who did the picking was at one point using
> a product that had Python as an extension language.  (For bonds and
> bond-related products, FrontArena PRIME is pretty popular, and that uses
> Python, for instance.)