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quite different from most other programming languages.
 
quite different from most other programming languages.
   
== Features ==
 
 
=== Functional Programming ===
 
 
=== Statically Typing ===
 
 
=== Lazy Evaluation ===
 
   
 
== History ==
 
== History ==

Revision as of 10:06, 9 July 2009

Haskell is a computer programming language that is

quite different from most other programming languages.


History

The language is named for Haskell Brooks Curry, whose work in mathematical logic serves as a foundation for functional languages. Haskell is based on the lambda calculus, hence the lambda we use as a logo.