Paul Hudak, Co-creator of Haskell, Has Died

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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Haskell?

[ArcadeMan]

He was known as one of the principle designers of Haskell, which you probably don't need to be told he defined as "a purely functional programming language."

I'm sorry, but this is the first time I ever hear about Haskell. There's just too many fringe projects, languages, frameworks, widgets and services out there, you can't know about them all.

Re:Haskell?

[ArcadeMan]

I've never heard about Erlang either and while I know that LISP is a programming language, I've never seen someone use it.

As for the idiot who modded my original comment as a troll, get off your high horse. Most people will only know about assembler, Cobol, Basic, Pascal, C, C++, C#, PHP, etc.

Re:Haskell?

[grimmjeeper]

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