Thank you so much everyone who have been so helpful in pointing out the resources that I can use to convince my prof. And guess what, he's finally convinced!!!
I wholehearted appreciate everyone and the strong support from this Haskell community. Ed On 4/4/07, Doaitse Swierstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There have been a series on workshop about the commercial use of functional programming. You can find the slides of presentations at: http://cufp.galois.com/ Some companies even use knowledge of FP to filter out the good applicants ;-}} What is your instructor's opinion about that? Doaitse Swierstra On Apr 3, 2007, at 11:40 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > Sukit Tretriluxana wrote: >> Unfortunately my instructor disagrees that the topic is relevant. >> In his response, he mentioned that he will accept the topic only >> if I can prove the following. >> >> Haskell has been around for quite a while. To convince me, >> you'll have to give me references that I can read about >> nontrivial examples of significant software systems already >> built exclusively with Haskell which includes the software >> engineering principles applied in this environment and the >> software measures that demonstrate the claims. I >> welcome the opportunity for you to provide me with such >> in-depth research references to support your viewpoint. > For FP in general you could look at Erlang. Its an functional > programming language used for telecom systems. www.erlang.org has > a bunch of references, including some very significant software > systems. > > I would suggest broadening your scope to include Erlang, and then > look at some of the issues with Erlang and the way in which Haskell > purity helps, like deforestation. In Erlang you can write a > function as a pipeline of maps, filters and folds, but it tends to > be very inefficient because all the intermediate data structures > have to be created. In Haskell the compiler can strip out these > structures because the order of execution does not matter. > > I know that Haskell has been used for chip design software. Simon > Peyton-Jones' recent paper on the history of Haskell has some > references. > > Paul. > _______________________________________________ > Haskell mailing list > Haskell@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
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