Lenny222/About Haskell

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Haskell is a computer programming language that is

quite different from most other programming languages.

Features

Functional Programming

Statically Typing

Lazy Evaluation

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.