“Haskell is like a programming language from an alternate future that is never going to happen,” he says. “It solves all these problems it promises to solve.

Haskell is one of the most popular functional programming languages but it has not found much use in the embedded space. That is not likely to change in the near future but there are reasons for ...

Haskell is a 25-year-old programming language that isn't all that popular. But Facebook uses it, and that's a sign of things to come.

Programming in Haskell ends up being nothing like programming "functionally" in a non-functional language. A great illustration is linked lists: Haskell uses linked lists all over the place, which ...

Purely functional programming is a brilliant idea with a misleading name. When people talk about “purely functional programming”, they mean Haskell or something like Haskell. But that’s not ...

Haskell, a highly expressive language that’s a natural for functional programming, is lauded for allowing developers to write less code and do more with it.

In this QCon London 2008 interview, computer scientist and researcher Simon Peyton Jones discusses properties of functional programming languages, and particularly Haskell, that have inspired some fea ...

Two weeks ago someone ran a poll on Hacker News asking what the readers’ favorite programming language was. Yesterday (April 5) I took a look back at the poll to see who came out on top. I wasn ...