Haskell vs. Ada vs. C++ vs. Awk vs (1994) [pdf]

This is a long time ago, but I remember coming across this competition when studying software architecture for my Diplomarbeit. IIRC, the Haskell solutions were disqualified, and actually for good reasons. The competition was about architecture of the system, with the geoserver an example component. Notice that for example Rapide is an Architecture Description Language (ADL). As far as I can tell, the Haskell team(s) only concerned themselves with the (purposely) simplistic/simplified functionality of the…

This is an interesting paper, and I'd like a replication today, 25y after: I believe Haskell has matured a lot in all of this time. As an experiment, some months ago we prototyped a new service in Haskell at work. We timeboxed a week for it (two people, proficient in Haskell), and the result is that (1) the Product Owners were really pleased with it, and (2) even if it was really bad Haskell code, we _still_ managed to encode…

"Them" refers to the developers using languages other than Haskell: "We provided them with a copy of P1 without explaining that it was a program, and based on preconceptions from their past experience, they had studied P1 under the assumption that it was a mixture of requirements specification and top level design. They were convinced it was incomplete because it did not address issues such as data structure design and execution order.” "The other kind of response had more to…