dictionary definitions for "haskell"


From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 Sep 2003) [foldoc]:

  Haskell
  
     <language> (Named after the logician Haskell Curry) A lazy
     purely functional language largely derived from Miranda
     but with several extensions.  Haskell was designed by a
     committee from the functional programming community in April
     1990.  It features static polymorphic typing, {higher-order
     function}s, user-defined algebraic data types, and
     pattern-matching list comprehensions.  Innovations include
     a class system, systematic operator overloading, a
     functional I/O system, functional arrays, and {separate
     compilation}.
  
     Haskell 1.3 added many new features, including monadic I/O,
     standard libraries, constructor classes, labeled fields in
     datatypes, strictness annotations, an improved module
     system, and many changes to the Prelude.
  
     Gofer is a cut-down version of Haskell with some extra
     features.
  
     Filename extension: .hs, .lhs (literate programming).
  
     {Home (http://haskell.org/)}.
  
     ["Report on the Programming Language Haskell Version 1.1",
     Paul Hudak & P. Wadler eds, CS Depts, U Glasgow and Yale U.,
     Aug 1991].
  
     [Version 1.2: SIGPLAN Notices 27(5), Apr 1992].
  
     {Haskell 1.3 Report
     (http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/haskell-report/haskell-report.html)}.
  
     Mailing list: <haskell-request@cs.yale.edu>.
  
     Yale Haskell - Version 2.0.6, Haskell 1.2 built on {Common
     Lisp}.
  
     {(ftp://nebula.cs.yale.edu/pub/haskell/yale/)}.
  
     Glasgow Haskell (GHC) - Version 2.04 for DEC Alpha/OSF2;
     HPPA1.1/HPUX9,10; SPARC/SunOs 4, Solaris 2;
     MIPS/Irix 5,6; Intel 80386/Linux,Solaris
     2,FreeBSD,CygWin 32; PowerPC/AIX.  GHC generates C
     or native code.
  
     {(ftp://ftp.dcs.glasgow.ac.uk/pub/haskell/glasgow/)}
  
     E-mail: <glasgow-haskell-request@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>.
  
     Haskell-B - Haskell 1.2 implemented in LML, generates
     native code.
  
     {(ftp://ftp.cs.chalmers.se/pub/haskell/chalmers/)}
  
     E-mail: <hbc@cs.chalmers.se>.
  
     (1997-06-06)
  


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