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A recent rant got me thinking. The powerful type system and other facilities provided by Haskell are believed to provide significant advantages in reducing defects and minimizing debugging. But there's a steep learning curve to get to the point you can take advantage of all of that. Are there any studies or data supporting the notion that benefits are worth the costs? Do we see fewer defects, less time debugging, etc? Just curious.
It sure did for me.. I decided to use a work task as an opportunity to learn Haskell a few years back. Most of it was done in 3 weeks, and that program has not had a bug in over 2 years. Since my job is mostly just making sure this process works, I essentially have a full time job as passive income. At one point they tried to replace it, paying a team of very expensive consultants for 6 months before they gave up. I can probably live off this one accomplishment for a decade or more.
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