Softwaretechnische Vorteile

...der statischen Typisierung

The language in which you write profoundly affects the design of programs written in that language.

For example, in the OO world, many people use UML to sketch a design. In Haskell or ML, one writes type signatures instead. Much of the initial design phase of a functional program consists of writing type definitions.

Unlike UML, though, all this design is incorporated in the final product, and is machine-checked throughout.

Simon Peyton Jones, in: Masterminds of Programing, 2009; http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596515171.do