Using functional programming within an industrial product group: perspectives and perceptions

Authors:
David Scott;Richard Sharp;Thomas Gazagnaire;Anil Madhavapeddy
Affiliations:
Citrix Systems UK R&D, Cambridge, United Kingdom;Citrix Systems UK R&D, Cambridge, United Kingdom;INRIA Sophia Antipolis, Cedex, France;University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Venue:
Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGPLAN international conference on Functional programming
Year:
2010

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Abstract

We present a case-study of using OCaml within a large product development project, focussing on both the technical and non-technical issues that arose as a result. We draw comparisons between the OCaml team and the other teams that worked on the project, providing comparative data on hiring patterns and cross-team code contribution.