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Sounds great except it takes 10x as much time to read/write the Haskell code versus C++.

The chart did indicate that 85 lines of code did take a while to write but the 1100 lines of C++ likely took longer. Many developers claim that Haskell code has fewer bugs. Program correctness counts for something.

Anyway, a modern competition with Python, Swift, Java, Modern C++, Rust, etc would be interesting.

Java 1.0 wasn’t even available when this paper was written.

Fun fact: Python was 3 years old at this point.

Page 9 shows Haskell scoring very well for development time when compared against Ada. C++ development time was unfortunately not reported.

Ada projects tend to start slow, but readability and flexible namespacing make refactoring and maintenance much easier.

Oh, yes. Have touched Ada in VHDL (using Ada declarations syntax), declarations in Ada are very long, but extremely powerful.

Have not seen any comparable in popular languages (except Modula 3, which is for same domain), nearest as for me, guard expressions of Erlang.

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