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Stefania Loredana Nita and Marius Mihailescu, Practical Concurrent Haskell, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2781-7_2

2. Programming with Haskell

Stefania Loredana Nita and Marius Mihailescu1

(1)Bucharest, Romania

Haskell represents a purely functional programming language that provides many advantages and the latest innovations in the design of programming languages. The most recent standard of Haskell is Haskell 2010; but in May 2016, the Haskell community started working on the next version, Haskell 2020.

The Haskell platform is available for download at https://www.haskell.org/platform/ , where there are other versions of installers and an installation guide. After downloading of the appropriate ...

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