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A History of Haskell

"A History of Haskell: being lazy with class" (copy), Paul Hudak (Yale University), John Hughes (Chalmers University), Simon Peyton Jones (Microsoft Research), Philip Wadler (Edinburgh University), The Third ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conference (HOPL-III) San Diego, California, June 9-10, 2007.

This paper describes the history of Haskell, including its genesis and principles, technical contributions, implementations and tools, and applications and impact.