It was like learning to program all over again. Long before Haskell coalesced into a programming language, it was a swarm of theoretical concepts. In 1977, the computer scientist John Backus ...

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 fact, Aaron Contorer suggests that ...

That doesn’t mean Haskell will be ubiquitous in the years to come. Because it’s so different from traditional programming languages, coders often have trouble learning to use it; undoubtedly ...

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 ...

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Also, the fact that this extremely common programming pattern is not present in the base language tells you how far Haskell’s design is from mainstream programming needs.

Lux’s creators drew from three major sources—Haskell, Clojure, and ML—but Lux also differs from each of them. Clojure, the other major Lisp-like language for the JVM (and which now powers ...