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		pjmlp on Jan 29, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Haskell in the Large [pdf] Another thing is contract programming, but it is really hard to sell to managers where shipping cheap outweights quality. I don't envision FP or contract based programming in enterprise offshore code.

codygman on Jan 30, 2015 [–]

Imagine a super-charged version of the method where Java Architects make class hierarchies and interfaces for offshore/contract programmers.

I think FP (and contract based programming) would do a much better job than Java for varying qualities of programmers on very large projects.

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