Comment by initplus
14 days ago
Maybe my phrasing is not clear - I meant that these languages are indeed not significantly more productive.
14 days ago
Maybe my phrasing is not clear - I meant that these languages are indeed not significantly more productive.
By what measure? Haskell can be a huge productivity multiplier. The standard library is built upon many powerful, unifying and consistent mathematical abstractions. For example, there is almost no boilerplate to write for any traversal, mapping, error handling etc. The average Pythonista simply has no idea what they are missing. But Haskell doesn't have anywhere near the third party ecosystem of Python, so is less productive by some measures.
But (and I agree with the GP) they are. They are overwhelmingly more productive, in a way that you often can't even compare quantitatively.
They are also a lot less productive. It depends entirely on what you are doing.