A History of Haskell: being lazy with class
- Simon Peyton Jones
The Third ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conference (HOPL-III) |
This long (55-page) paper describes the history of Haskell, including its genesis and principles, technical contributions, implementations and tools, and applications and impact.
You might also be interested in Simon’s POPL’03 talk: A retrospective on Haskell
Watch below a video of the talk, the video starts a minute or so into the talk, but nothing important is missing.