On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 09:57:52AM +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote:
When I first started using Haskell, I got the impression that there were hundreds, maybe even thousands, of developers working on GHC. (After all, how else could you write such a huge codebase in less than two centuries?) But now it appears the number of active developers is nearer to 3. This is obviously a jaw-droppingly tiny number of people to be working on such a gigantic piece of software. If it's really true, it's amazing anything ever gets done at all!
Now you see the power of Haskell. By offloading tasks from your brain to the type system you can tackle wildly larger tasks than you would be able to with a lesser language. Haskell programs end up being a tiny fraction of the size and complexity of programs in other languages to acomplish the same task and the difference gets more pronounced as programs get larger. It is how I was able to write jhc for the most part by myself. Haskell is an intelligence multiplier. John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈ - http://notanumber.net/