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Chris ‘Doc’ Haskell, head coach of Esports at Boise State, was recently interviewed by Tommy Ahlquist on his podcast Ever Onward, which features local business people and other notable figures. The ...
“Haskell is like a programming language from an alternate future that is never going to happen,” he says. “It solves all these problems it promises to solve.
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 ...
Haskell is a 25-year-old programming language that isn't all that popular. But Facebook uses it, and that's a sign of things to come.
Haskell (like most functional programming) is built around Algebraic Datatypes (ADTs, or tuples). ADTs don’t usually name individual data payload elements. Each pattern-match de-structuring is ...
The best news is that Haskell's type system will tell you if your program is well-typed before you run it. This is a big advantage because most programming errors are manifested as typing errors [p. 8 ...
One of co-authors of the Real World Haskell book, John Goerzen, talks in a recent interview to O’Reilly about purity, laziness, recursiveness and many other subjects that make Haskell worth ...
And Haskell has not had anything pushing it forward just yet. Many people think that parallelism and concurrency will be the final thing that pushes functional programming into the limelight.
Sweeney feels that Haskell may be the gateway to "The Next Mainstream Programming Language". Because video game developers are often on the cutting edge of our field simply out of necessity, his ...