Wrapping Up Haskell
Of all the languages in this book, Haskell was the only one created by committee. After the proliferation of purely functional languages with lazy semantics, a committee was formed to build an open standard that would consolidate existing capabilities and future research. Haskell was born, with version 1.0 defined in 1990. The language and community have grown since then.
Haskell supports a wide variety of functional capabilities including list comprehensions, lazy computing strategies, partially applied functions, and currying. In fact, by default, Haskell functions process one parameter at a time, using currying to support multiple arguments.
The Haskell type system provides an excellent balance of type safety and flexibility. ...
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