An Introduction to Haskell, Part 1: Why Haskell (O'ReillyNet)

[Posted May 28, 2007 by cook]

Adam Turoff presents part one in an O'Reilly article series on Haskell. "Let me start by being perfectly clear: if you are a professional programmer, then Haskell is in your future. In 1987, this statement would have been equally true about Smalltalk. Today, 20 years later, object-oriented programming, class hierarchies, model-view-controller patterns, and other ideas from Smalltalk are now commonplace, even though Smalltalk never saw widespread adoption. Haskell is in a similar situation today. It is an esoteric language, yet stable and reliable enough for serious work."

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