Why Lazy Functional Programming Languages Rule
Da Massive writes “Techworld has an in-depth chat with Simon Peyton-Jones about the development of Haskell and his philosophy of do one thing, and do it well. Peyton-Jones describes his interest in lazy functional programming languages, and chats about their increasing relevance in a world with rapidly increasing multi-core CPUs and clusters. ‘I think Haskell is increasingly well placed for this multi-core stuff, as I think people are increasingly going to look to languages like Haskell and say ‘oh, that’s where we can get some good ideas at least’, whether or not it’s the actual language or concrete syntax that they adopt.’”
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