Clojure used in Finance?

[blais]

Hi,

I've been fiddling LISP for a long time, and was never that
enthousiastic about "Java the language" despite the large number and
breadth of its libraries (in my view the libraries are the best part
about it, the language itself is rather limited). So I'm finding
Clojure (and the idea of a JVM-based better language) refreshing...

Now I'm curious... are there any Financial firms starting to use
Closure or Scala? Java is a widespread in that industry; any promising
news there?

[Justin Henzie]

Interesting question that I have been pondering myself.

In the absence of specific evidence to the contrary I think that both
languages are worthy of consideration but I think that perhaps the
static typing of scala may be more compelling.

Just my opinion though.