The motivation for Haskell included building large applications. It was not solely a research language, but the culmination of years of research in non strict f

The motivation for Haskell included building large applications. It was not solely a research language, but the culmination of years of research in non strict functional languages: https://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/preface-jfp.html https://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/preface-jfp.html