Re: Haskell, anyone?

["Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>]

On 11/15/2015 2:42 PM, mockturtle wrote:
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> The question should be obvious: it seems that Haskell and Ada would attract
>the same kind of person; does someone here know and like Haskell as well?
>

I do not know about Haskell, never used it (too many programming languages, too
little time, and they all seem to be re-inventing the same wheel again and again).

But there is another programming language called "D" that is supposed to
be close to Ada in terms of being a "good typed" language. see for example

http://forum.dlang.org/post/xnulsgpdhkgjpllwkgxq@forum.dlang.org

There is a Haskell vs. Ada report here:

http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/?post_type=publication&p=366

"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 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++."

This was in 1994 !

  
> Riccardo
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