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I read the following paper with much interest:

Haskell vs. Ada vs. C++ vs. Awk vs. ... An Experiment in Software Prototyping Productivity

It describes a US Navy experiment in which Haskell came out on top over C++, Ada and a number of other languages. The paper references an "appendix B" which should list source code but nowhere have I been able to find a version of the paper which includes the appendices or the source code itself.

Any pointers?

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http://www.cs.yale.edu/publications/techreports/tr1031.pdf

This is how I found it:

The paper you read mentions an appendix B only in one place:

We quote from [CHJ93]: “It is significant that [...] were all surprised and suspicious when we told them that Haskell prototype P1 (see appendix B) is a complete tested executable program. [...]”

Since there is no appendix B in your paper, it must be in the cited paper:

[CHJ93] W.E. Carlson, P. Hudak, and M.P. Jones. An experiment using Haskell to prototype "geometric region servers" for navy command and control. Research Report 1031, Department of Computer Science, Yale University, November 1993.

I found that one on the website of the Department of Computer Science of Yale University. They keep a list of technical reports published in 1993.

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In case you read the code and wonder what Dialogue is, it's what Haskell used for IO before monads were introduced to the language in 1996. – hammar Aug 5 '11 at 18:53

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