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-----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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------- 21st century air travel http://www.britishairways.com _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell