Haskell vs. Ada vs. C++ an Experiment in Software Prototyping Productivity (1994) [pdf]
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HN comment orderI'm curious about Relational Lisp. It had the shortest development time, 3h to Haskell's 10/8; a middling/low number of lines of code, at 274; and only 12 lines of documentation. It describes Relational Lisp as being Lisp enhanced with a database-like language for logic programming. I suspect this may be it: https://oceanpark.com/ap5.html https://www.ap5.com/ There's a C2 entry for it, of course: https://wiki.c2.com/?RelationalLispWeenie
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| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-11-05 | An Experiment in Software Prototyping Productivity (1994) [pdf] | tikhonj | 4 | 0 |
| 2016-12-24 | Haskell vs. Ada vs. C++ vs. Awk vs [pdf] | tosh | 18 | 0 |
| 2017-05-04 | Haskell vs. Ada vs. C++ an Experiment in Software Prototyping Productivity (1994) [pdf]First breakout · Best thread | aaronchall | 102 | 59 |
| 2022-12-10 | Haskell, Ada, C++, Awk: An Experiment in Prototyping Productivity (1994) [pdf] | Akronymus | 10 | 0 |
| 2024-12-17 | Haskell vs. Ada vs. C++ vs. an Experiment in Prototyping Productivity (1994) [pdf]Latest 20+ point return | mkristiansen | 73 | 95 |