Tutorial: lazy functional programming in Haskell

  • Authors:
  • H. Conrad Cunningham;Yi Liu;Hui Xiong

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Mississippi, University, MS;University of Mississippi, University, MS;University of Mississippi, University, MS

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2nd annual conference on Mid-south college computing
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

In ACM's 1977 Turing Award Lecture [1], Backus argues that conventional imperative programming languages are inherently disorderly:Moreover, the assignment statement splits programming into two worlds. The first world comprises the right sides of assignment statements. This is an orderly world of expressions, a world that has useful algebraic properties (except that those properties are often destroyed by side effects). It is the world in which most useful computation takes place.