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The advantage of Haskell is obviously that it's very easy to write code that is very bug free compared to most languages. Java and Go are used and Haskell has
by Blikkentrekker 6y ago
The advantage of Haskell is obviously that it's very easy to write code that is very bug free compared to most languages.
Java and Go are used and Haskell has comparable performance but certainly less bugs.
- Guthur 6y agoThese are just wild unsubstantiated claims. In my experience the worst errors are those of broken referential integrity in distributed systems, misinterpreted product specifications and plain old "this doesn't do what i thought it did" code
- foolmeonce 6y ago"This doesn't do what I thought it did" should have a strong connection to needing to rely on reading documentation made from comments. In some sense that form of literate programming is about limiting the scope of each individual misunderstanding without eliminating any of the misunderstandings.
- UncleMeat 6y agoThe software engineering research community has almost no idea how to measure "ease of writing correct programs". So it becomes very difficult to make meaningful claims that Haskell programs will contain fewer bugs.