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Article:		What I Hate About Your Programming Language
Subject:		Haskell
Date:		2003-05-13 23:38:01
From:		anonymous2
Response to: Haskell
Cynical thought. What's funny is when COBOL first came out it advertised largely the same benefits. Quoting from Haskell.org: * Substantially increased programmer productivity (Ericsson measured an improvement factor of between 9 and 25 in one set of experiments on telephony software). * Shorter, clearer, and more maintainable code. Fewer errors, higher reliability. * A smaller "semantic gap" between the programmer and the language. * Shorter lead times.

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2003-05-14 10:19:08 anonymous2 [View]

That's dumb. Yes, COBOL advertised those benefits, but, WITHIN ITS INTENDED DOMAIN (fixed-structure record-processing) there're very few languages that can touch it. COBOL is very good at what it's designed to do; the fact that it's original purpose is largely obsolete doesn't translate their claims into a counterargument against Haskell (or anything else for that matter).