On: Is Haskell a Good Choice for Web Applications? (2009)

[joe_fishfish]

Coding in Haskell is not like coding in a more imperative language like Python or Java. Haskell is incredibly terse, and most of the work is done in your mind, trying to figure out exactly how best to declare what you're trying to achieve.

Once the thinking part is complete you can usually express what you're trying to do in less than ten lines.

[steeleduncan]

From his article I imagine it was 400 hours reading documentation and 100 hours coding.

Besides, 2500 lines of Haskell is likely to be far more functional than 2500 lines of PHP.

[TeMPOraL → steeleduncan]

> Besides, 2500 lines of Haskell is likely to be far more functional than 2500 lines of PHP.

I guess it's true in both meanings of word 'functional' ;).