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Paul Hudak, Co-creator of Haskell, Has Died

Posted by timothy on from the leaving-a-legacy dept.

Esther Schindler writes: Yale is reporting that Paul Hudak, professor of computer science and master of Saybrook College, died last night after a long battle with leukemia. He was known as one of the principal designers of Haskell, which you probably don't need to be told he defined as "a purely functional programming language."

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  1. Re:Haskell? by grimmjeeper · · Score: 0, Troll

    I would suggest that "minimally aware of current trends in CS" is a much higher threshold than you may think. Even on /.