Haskell Productivity

[Peter Douglass]

There is a thread on comp.lang.functional which may be of interest.
Here is a link that might work for you.

http://www.deja.com/dnquery.xp?search=thread&svcclass=dnserver&recnum=%3c8lh
8ss$6le$1@bird.wu-wien.ac.at%3e%231/1

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steinitz, Dominic J 
> [mailto:Dominic.J.Steinitz@BritishAirways.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 11:12 AM
> To: haskell
> Subject: Haskell Productivity
> 
> 
> The Haskell website claims that
> 
> "Ericsson measured an improvement factor of between 9 and 25 
> in one set of experiments on telephony software".
> 
> Presumably this is with Erlang not with Haskell. I have 
> searched for the reference that substantiates this claim but 
> I've only been able to find:
> 
> http://set.gmd.de/~ap/femsys/wiger.html 
> 
> which talks about a productivity factor of 4
> 
> and
> 
> http://www.md.chalmers.se/Cs/Research/Functional/Fudgets/haske
ll-vs-ada-abstract.html

which suggests that Haskell is about 2-3 times as productive as imperative
languages.

Can someone point me at some more references? Especially the one that talks
about a productivity improvement of 9-25?

Thanks, Dominic.

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