Paul Johnson wrote:
- Little integration with mainstream software development. No
analysis or design methods or notations. Haskell development appears
to be primarily a matter of paying a bunch of very bright developers
to cut code.
Writing a functional specification is a very good design method.
The nice thing with Haskell is, that this specification is executable
and with ghc it usually executes fast enough.
- Concerns about support and maintenance. Those bright developers may
not be around in the long term.
This seems to be a hen & egg problem.
Students do not study functional programming deeply because it seems
irrelevant to finding a job. Decision makers, on the other hand, either
have never heard of FP or are aware that there are not enough people
familiar with it and so there are natural concerns about maintenance.
Michael
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