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Haskell is the standard lazy purely functional programming language.
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The current language version is Haskell 98, agreed in December 1998,
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with a revised version published in January 2003.
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A wide variety of Haskell related resources (tutorials, libraries,
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specifications, documentation, compilers, interpreters, references,
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contact information, links to research groups) are available from
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the Haskell home page at http://haskell.org/.
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The Glasgow Haskell Compiler is a robust, fully-featured, optimising
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compiler for the functional programming language Haskell 98 generating
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good code for a variety of platforms. GHC is a state-of-the-art
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programming suite for Haskell and compiles Haskell to either native
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code or C. It implements numerous experimental language extensions to
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Haskell, including concurrency, a foreign language interface, several
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type-system extensions, exceptions, and so on. GHC comes with a
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generational garbage collector, a space and time profiler, comprehensive
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set of libraries and an interactive system for convenient, quick
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development.
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The profiling libraries for Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System
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should be installed when GHC's profiling subsystem is needed.
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WWW: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
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