Haskell
Haskell - Purely functional programming language
Haskell is a statically typed, purely functional language with lazy evaluation, type classes, and monads for robust, mathematical-style programming.
Category
Functional / Pure
First Release
1990
File Extension
.hs
Creator
Simon Peyton Jones, Lennart Augustsson, and others
Latest News
Haskell Foundation Forms Technical Leadership Committee
The Haskell Foundation has launched a new Technical Leadership Committee to proactively set the language's development direction and oversee resource allocation.
Stack 4.1.1 Release Candidate Two Adds GHC 10.0 Support
The second release candidate for Stack 4.1.1 introduces GHC 10.0 support, improved Cabal integration, and a new info-table profiling flag for performance debugging.
Difficulty
Pure functions, monads, lazy evaluation, and advanced type system require fundamental shift from imperative programming paradigms.