Jump to content

Haskell: Difference between revisions

From EDM2
No edit summary
No edit summary
Line 5: Line 5:


The language was originally designed by a committee in 1987 to 89, with version one of the Haskell specification being released in 89, originally it was intended to be a variant of David Turner’s [[Miranda]] but Turner refused permission for this as he was afraid of incompatible variants of the language existing in the wild the Haskell committee ended up deliberately making the language incompatible with Miranda, however the two languages are still structurally very similar.
The language was originally designed by a committee in 1987 to 89, with version one of the Haskell specification being released in 89, originally it was intended to be a variant of David Turner’s [[Miranda]] but Turner refused permission for this as he was afraid of incompatible variants of the language existing in the wild the Haskell committee ended up deliberately making the language incompatible with Miranda, however the two languages are still structurally very similar.
Haskell has grown a few dialects of it own including '''Mondrian''' that simplifies the Haskell structures.


==A list of OS/2 implementations of Haskell==
==A list of OS/2 implementations of Haskell==
Line 40: Line 42:
;History
;History
* Paul Hudak, John Hughes, Simon Peyton Jones and Philip Wadler: [http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/history.pdf A History of Haskell: Being Lazy With Class]
* Paul Hudak, John Hughes, Simon Peyton Jones and Philip Wadler: [http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/history.pdf A History of Haskell: Being Lazy With Class]
;Mondrian
* Erik Mejer and Koen Klaessen: [http://userpages.uni-koblenz.de/~laemmel/TheEagle/dl/MeijerC97.pdf The design and implementation of Mondrian] - In PDF format.


[[Category:Programming Languages]]
[[Category:Programming Languages]]
[[Category:Haskell]]
[[Category:Haskell]]
[[Category:Functional programming]]
[[Category:Functional programming]]

Revision as of 05:41, 13 March 2016

Strongly typed, lazy functional programming language. Generated a lot of interest during the 1990's and is still one of the more popular functional languages out there but was greatly hampered at the time by the complete incompatibility of different tools available, and lack of standards and standard adherence in general.

While things have gotten a lot better in the last couple of decades, there is still some distance between the standards and the available tools, the Haskell 98 specification and later for instance state that Haskell supports Unicode but actually none of the implementations do so except via kludgy workarounds.

The language was originally designed by a committee in 1987 to 89, with version one of the Haskell specification being released in 89, originally it was intended to be a variant of David Turner’s Miranda but Turner refused permission for this as he was afraid of incompatible variants of the language existing in the wild the Haskell committee ended up deliberately making the language incompatible with Miranda, however the two languages are still structurally very similar.

Haskell has grown a few dialects of it own including Mondrian that simplifies the Haskell structures.

A list of OS/2 implementations of Haskell

  • Gofer - aka HUGS - Open source - Discontinued.
  • NHC - Open source - Discontinued.

Foreign libraries with Haskell bindings

  • LibcURL - Internet URL (WWW, FTP, etc) access - Open Source - Current.
  • LZ4 - Compression library - Open source - Current
  • Snappy - Compression lib. - Open Source - Current.

OS/2 text editors with Haskell support

  • jEdit - Java based - Haskell syntax highlighting built in - Current.

A list of DOS implementations of Haskell

  • Gofer - Open source - Discontinued.

Links

Publications

Parallel programming
History
Mondrian