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Personal Thoughts on the Current Functional Programming Bandwagon

• greydius 10y ago
  > Haskell is widely acclaimed as the language that represents the functional programming ideals. But it is meant to be an academic language... The Haskell report lists 5 goals, the first if which is > It should be suitable for teaching, research, and applications, including building large systems.
  • bubuga 10y ago
    Wasn't Haskell formed by a committee of academics originated in an academic conference on functional programming, to try to merge competing functional programming languages into a base line from which to conduct research?