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		wyager on March 15, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Expert Was Needed to Disable Malaysia Airlines Jet... >What's so great about Haskell? The type system. When I write Haskell programs, I create orders of magnitude fewer bugs than I do when writing programs in other PLs. The language makes it very hard to screw up implementing an idea. Haskell forces me to implement things in ways that are both elegant and easy to comprehend. Haskell does not easily admit spaghetti code.

protomyth on March 15, 2014 | [–]

Have you programmed any Ada?

psuter on March 15, 2014 | [–]

The things that matter in critical embedded systems are typically not captured by type systems: memory boundedness, running time upper bounds, overflows,... For these things even (controlled) C is a better option than Haskell today.

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