thma / WhyHaskellMatters

In this article I try to explain why Haskell keeps being such an important language by presenting some of its most important and distinguishing features and detailing them with working code examples. The presentation aims to be self-contained and does not require any previous knowledge of the language.

Date Created 2020-02-05 (4 years ago)

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monads folding functor haskell mapping foldable type-classes lazy-evaluation pattern-matching polymorphic-types list-comprehension anonymous-functions partial-application algebraic-data-types function-composition explicit-side-effects first-class-functions functional-programming higher-order-functions declarative-programming

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updated: 2024-12-21 @ 10:47am, id: 238533527 / R_kgDODje7lw