Introduction

Inception

Haskell is standardized, general-purpose compiled purely functional programming language. Haskell is written in several languages but it's basically a mixture of C and Assembly. This language was created, by the whole team, that included:

• Lennart Augustsson

• Dave Barton

• Brian Boutel

• Warren Burton

• Joseph Fasel

• Kevin Hammond

• Ralf Hinze

• Paul Hudak

• John Hughes

• Thomas Johnsson

• Mark Jones

• Simon Peyton Jones

• John Launchbury

• Erik Meijer

• John Peterson

• Alastair Reid

• Colin Runciman

• Philip Wadler

Features, engineering stuff here

Haskell has a lot of features, the most known, are here:

• lazy evaluation

• monads

• type polymorphism

• type classes

• pattern matching

• lambda expressions

• cache in functions

Haskell specification is published and open for everyone. Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) is its main implementation, which is both, native-code compiler and interpreter, that runs on most of the platforms.

File extensions for Haskell code are .hs and .lhs