Lacking manageability

Lacking manageability

Posted May 2, 2007 14:19 UTC (Wed) by pharm (guest, #22305)
In reply to: Lacking manageability by man_ls
Parent article: The Rise of Functional Languages (Linux Journal)

Is it because functional languages are somehow less manageable?; in other words, is it harder to keep large functional programs understandable? Or maybe they are there, but are harder to find -- or are not free software?

Most functional languages tend to have less boiler plate than the 'traditional' languages like C+ +.

Handwave follows: There's probably more conceptually complexity in 10 lines of Haskell than in 100 lines of C++. (Unless the C++ is drawing heavily on TR1, Boost lambdas etc etc, in which case things are probably more like 2:1)

The largest 'program in a functional language' I'm aware of is the Ericsson telecoms switch code which I believe clocks in at over 1.7 million lines of code.

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