News/1988

• Inaugural ICFP WG2.8 meeting
• Yale haskell compiler (Hudak et al)
• Hope+ and existential data types (Perry)
• Yale Meeting, establishes goals of standard language, and the name Haskell is chosen.
• February: Type classes introduced by Wadler
• April: Glasgow meeting
• July: Inaugural IFIP WG2.8 meeting, Glasgow
• Textbook: "Introduction to Functional Programming" (Bird, Wadler)
• "Nondeterminism with Referential Transparency in Functional Programming Languages" (Burton)