Difference between revisions of "Lenny222/About Haskell"

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Haskell is a programming language with the following features:

	What it means	What it is good for
functional	?	?
garbage collected	?	?
high-level	?	?
lambda functions	?	?
lazy	?	?
pattern matching	Example: fib 0 = 0 fib 1 = 1 fib n = fib (n - 2) + fib (n - 1)
pure	?	?
static typed	?	?
strongly typed	?	?

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+__NOTOC__
-Haskell is a computer programming language that is
+== Haskell ==
-* [[functional programming|purely functional]]
-* [[typing|statically typed]]
-* [[Lazy evaluation|lazy]]
-* [[Polymorphism|polymorphically]]
+Haskell is a programming language with the following features:
-quite different from most other programming languages.
+{| class="wikitable"
-== Features ==
+|-
+!
+! What it means
+! What it is good for
+|-
+| functional
+| ?
+| ?
+|-
+| garbage collected
+| ?
+| ?
+|-
+| high-level
+| ?
+| ?
+|-
+| lambda functions
+| ?
+| ?
+|-
+| lazy
+| ?
+| ?
+|-
+| pattern matching
+| Example:
+  fib 0 = 0
+  fib 1 = 1
+  fib n = fib (n - 2) + fib (n - 1)
+|
+|-
+| pure
+| ?
+| ?
+|-
+| static typed
+| ?
+| ?
+|-
+| strongly typed
+| ?
+| ?
+|}
-=== Functional Programming ===
+== Who is using it ==
-=== Statically Typing ===
+== Further reading ==
+* [[History of Haskell]]
-=== Lazy Evaluation ===
+* [[Future of Haskell]]
-== 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.