Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Louis Brandy pauses before answering, needing some extra time to choose his words. “I’m going to get ...

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 ...

Louis Brandy pauses before answering, needing some extra time to choose his words. "I'm going to get in so much trouble," he says. The question, you see, touches on an eternally controversial topic: ...

Answer by Tikhon Jelvis, Functional Programmer, Student, on Quora, It's a very difficult question because, at heart, it's more a matter of sociology than technology. Languages get popular or remain ...

Paul Hudak, a longtime Yale University computer science professor and one of the creators of the Haskell programming language, died on April 29 at age 62 after a long battle with leukemia. Hudak is ...