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The most fundamental proposition of Haskell was essentially the research question, "how lazy can we make a programming language?", it's the standout feature, so
by Barrin92 3y ago
The most fundamental proposition of Haskell was essentially the research question, "how lazy can we make a programming language?", it's the standout feature, so that'd seem kind of weird.
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.168.4008&rep=rep1&type=pdf https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.16...
- luispauloml 3y agoIn case someone wants to know what that paper is without having to download it: - "A history of Haskell: being lazy with class", from 2007, by Paul Hudak, John Hughes, Simon Peyton Jones, and Philip Wadler. - https://doi.org/10.1145/1238844.1238856 https://doi.org/10.1145/1238844.1238856
- throwaway81523 3y agoYou should probably also read "Wearing the hair shirt" (2003). https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/wearing-hair-shirt-retrospective-haskell-2003/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/wearing...