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From: Kenneth Oksanen <cessu@iki.fi>
To: Ocaml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] (Mostly) Functional Design?
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 01:00:40 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1121724040.8673.39.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42DB74DC.8030201@barettadeit.com>

On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 11:22 +0200, Alex Baretta wrote:
> [..] given cognitive compatibility with the mind of the developere, [FP] offers
> a productivity at least an order of magnitude greater on very large
> scale projects (over 100klocs) where the dominant cost factor is code
> maintenance. [..]

While I tend to agree with FP ideas and benefits in general, I hope such
strong statements would be backed by other than anecdotal evidence.
Controlled, randomized studies, for example.  Something similar to
Prechelt's work (IEEE Computer 33(10):23-29, October 2000), but on
larger projects.

-- 
; Kenneth Oksanen, mailto:cessu@iki.fi, http://iki.fi/cessu
((lambda(a) (a a((lambda(a)(lambda()(set! a(+ a 1))a))1)))(lambda(a c)
((lambda(b) (newline)(write b)(a a((lambda(c)(lambda()(c c)))(lambda(a)
((lambda(c) (if(=(modulo c b)0)(a a)c))(c))))))(c)))) ; Scheme me!


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-07-18 22:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-14 18:00 Kyle Consalus
2005-07-18  7:59 ` [Caml-list] " Robert Morelli
2005-07-18  9:22   ` Alex Baretta
     [not found]     ` <42DB78D3.7010401@andrej.com>
2005-07-18 10:01       ` Alex Baretta
2005-07-18 18:15     ` Robert Morelli
2005-07-18 18:45       ` Alex Baretta
2005-07-18 18:56       ` padiolea
2005-07-18 19:19         ` Jon Harrop
2005-07-18 19:38       ` Jon Harrop
2005-07-18 21:27       ` skaller
2005-07-18 21:55         ` Alwyn Goodloe
2005-07-18 22:16         ` Paul Snively
2005-07-19  0:45           ` Jonathan Bryant
2005-07-18 21:37       ` skaller
2005-07-18 22:00     ` Kenneth Oksanen [this message]
2005-07-18  9:29   ` Mark Meyers
2005-07-18  9:56   ` Large scale and FP (was: Re: [Caml-list] (Mostly) Functional Design?) David MENTRE
2005-07-18 18:11     ` Large scale and FP Robert Morelli
2005-07-18 14:08   ` [Caml-list] (Mostly) Functional Design? james woodyatt
2005-07-18 16:37     ` Alwyn Goodloe
2005-07-18 14:21   ` alphablock
2005-07-18 15:26     ` Alex Baretta
2005-07-18 15:38       ` alphablock
2005-07-18 17:17       ` Doug Kirk
2005-07-18 18:14         ` Alex Baretta
2005-07-19  7:42         ` james woodyatt
2005-07-19  9:35           ` Robert Morelli
2005-07-19 16:53             ` james woodyatt
2005-07-19 17:13               ` Paul Snively
2005-07-19 23:58                 ` Jon Harrop
2005-07-20  0:29                   ` Paul Snively
2005-07-18 18:23   ` padiolea
2005-07-18 19:45   ` Gerd Stolpmann
2005-07-18 22:16     ` skaller
2005-07-19  0:48   ` Chris Campbell
2005-07-19 20:14   ` Some Clarifications Robert Morelli
2005-07-20  6:18     ` [Caml-list] " Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2005-07-24  0:04       ` Robert Morelli
2005-07-24  2:30         ` Paul Snively
2005-07-24  7:37           ` Alex Baretta
2005-07-24  8:08           ` Robert Morelli
2005-07-24 12:23             ` David Teller
2005-07-24 18:29             ` skaller
2005-07-24 18:51             ` Paul Snively
2005-07-24 12:42         ` Gerd Stolpmann
2005-07-25  7:23         ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2005-07-20  7:34     ` David MENTRE
2005-07-27 15:37       ` Robert Morelli
2005-07-27 20:33         ` skaller
2005-07-27 23:48           ` Paul Snively
2005-07-20 16:28     ` Damien Doligez
2005-07-24 14:51       ` Robert Morelli
2005-07-24 16:11         ` David MENTRE
2005-07-25 12:21         ` Damien Doligez
2005-07-25 15:47           ` Richard Jones
2005-07-22  5:18   ` [Caml-list] (Mostly) Functional Design? Marius Nita

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