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Re:Software projects written in Haskell by galaxyLogic on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @02:42PM (#21337521)
It's not about "sunk cost". It's about making a new investment. How much would it cost to train all your programmers to be productive Haskell programmers?

Is it a worthwhile investment for your company? I'm not saying it isn't but that it is a big new investment if you're planning to make that transformation. Will it pay itself back in time? Maybe, maybe not. Or are there some other investments which would seem to have a bigger and less risky rate of return?

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Re:Software projects written in Haskell by ernst_klim on Friday October 25, 2019 @10:46AM (#21355467)
> How much would it cost to train all your programmers to be productive Haskell programmers?

Dunno about Haskell, but OCaml is way more simple than C++ or even Java. OCaml manual is 100 pages on informal tutorial + 100 pages of formal language definition. Another 200 pages are dedicated to runtime and tooling, and 400 more for the whole standard library.

With Java, the language manual itself is 800 pages, and that's without the library or runtime.

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