2008/8/19 Greg Fitzgerald
Does anyone know of a good case study comparing a project written in C versus one written in Haskell? I'm mostly looking for a comparison of lines of code, but any other metric, such as time to market and code quality metrics could also be
You can easily get some of this data for micro-benchmarks from the shoot out, but it will be laden with caveats and biases: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ While I'm sure your question is the right one ("Which technologies improve the development metrics we care about?"), it would seem that the biggest factor for things like time to market and code quality is actually the group of humans involved: http://alistair.cockburn.us/index.php/Characterizing_people_as_non-linear,_f... (these are each very similar and by the same author) http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/~prechelt/Biblio/jccpprt_computer2000.pdf http://www.cis.udel.edu/~silber/470STUFF/article.pdf http://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/journals/cacm/1999-42-10/p109-prechelt/p109... I found the last one from norvig.com where he has these two essays that go well together: http://norvig.com/java-lisp.html http://norvig.com/21-days.html Good luck! Jason