Re:Haskell v Ada v C++ v Awk... An Experiment in Software Pr...
by dserban on Thursday January 09, 2014 @06:30AM
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Abstract (cut-and-pasted from the paper):
We describe the results of an experiment in which several conventional programming languages, together with the functional language Haskell, were used to prototype a Naval Surface
Warfare Center (NSWC) requirement for a Geometric Region Server. The resulting programs and
development metrics were reviewed by a committee chosen by the Navy. The results indicate
that the Haskell prototype took significantly less time to develop and was considerably more
concise and easier to understand than the corresponding prototypes written in several different
imperative languages, including Ada and C++.
We describe the results of an experiment in which several conventional programming languages, together with the functional language Haskell, were used to prototype a Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) requirement for a Geometric Region Server. The resulting programs and development metrics were reviewed by a committee chosen by the Navy. The results indicate that the Haskell prototype took significantly less time to develop and was considerably more concise and easier to understand than the corresponding prototypes written in several different imperative languages, including Ada and C++.