[Haskell-cafe] Why are OCaml and Haskell being used at these companies?

Jon Harrop jon at ffconsultancy.com
Tue Nov 13 14:04:40 EST 2007


On Tuesday 13 November 2007 18:38, Tim Newsham wrote:
> > Functional programming languages are now much more widely used in
> > industry, primarily because they offer substantial productivity
> > improvements (roughly 10x) over C++ and Java and, consequently, are much
> > more cost effective.
>
> Do you have any references for this?

I'm compiling dozens of detailed case studies for a business management report 
about the use of modern statically typed functional programming languages in 
industry, designed to inform key decision-makers in industry.

If anyone using Haskell in industry would like some free publicity in this 
report, please e-mail me.

-- 
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e


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