What is Haskell?

What is Haskell?

Here is a description of the Haskell language from the Haskell web site, with links to chapters from our book and to other sites.

Haskell is an advanced purely functional programming language. The product of more than twenty years of cutting edge research, it allows rapid development of robust, concise, correctsoftware. With strong support for integration with other languages, built-in concurrency and parallelism, debuggers, profilers, rich libraries and an active community, Haskell makes it easier to produce flexible, maintainable high-quality software.