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An Experiment in Software Prototyping Productivity

@inproceedings{Hudak1994AnEI,
  title={An Experiment in Software Prototyping Productivity},
  author={Paul Hudak and Michael A. Jones},
  year={1994}
}
We describe the results of an experiment in which several conventional programming languages, togetherwith the functional language Haskell, were used to prototype a Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) requirement for aGeometric Region Server. The resulting programs and development metrics were reviewed by a committee chosen by the Navy. The results indicate that the Haskell prototype took significantly less time to develop and was considerably more concise and easier to understand than the… 
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