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Haskell Alive

Haskell
KindProgramming language
Appeared1990
StatusAlive
CreatorHaskell committee
FamilyML
Sourcewww.haskell.org ↗

The committee's unified lazy functional language — monads, type classes, and purity; academia's research vehicle that keeps leaking into production.

Descended from Miranda
Influenced Scala Clojure Rust Elm Swift
Predecessors Miranda

The 1990 Haskell committee's design — lazy, purely functional, monadic — unified Miranda, Lazy ML, and a decade of FP research into an open standard.\n\nGHC is its laboratory; monads, typeclasses, and purity are its exports to every modern language (Rust's traits, Java's streams, LINQ). It remains the research language that sets the agenda.

Sources

  1. haskell.org/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell