Talk:Haskell

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STM Monad

Could the STM monad section be moved to Concurrent Haskell? I've just been filling in the concurrency section on this page, including a short summary of STM, so it seems sensible to move the detailed information to the main page. Simonmar (talk) 20:19, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

Absolutely agree. The amount of STM monad material in this article is much too large. I'll do a move. jbolden1517^Talk 00:38, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Stuff removed from Boolean data type article

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In Haskell, a Bool type is defined in the standard prelude, defining it as a simple algebraic data type:

 data Bool = False | True

The operations are defined as ordinary functions and operators:

 (&&), (||) :: Bool -> Bool -> Bool
 True  && x = x
 False && _ = False
 True  || _ = True
 False || x = x

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Is there a place for this text in the Haskell-related articles? Perhaps in the Wikibook? Thanks, and all the best, --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 23:34, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Parallel Haskell variants

Citations for parallel Haskell variants were requested.

• Eden language is a parallel Haskell, see [1] (it's Rita Loogen and Yolanda Ortega-Mallén and Ricardo Peña-Marí, Parallel Functional Programming in Eden, Journal of Functional Programming, No. 15 (2005), 3). Eden is a distributed memory language.
• as for others, there is GpH [2], Glasgow parallel Haskell, which is a distributed memory language.
• and there is Multicore Haskell [3] (it's Simon Marlow and Simon Peyton Jones and Satnam Singh, Runtime support for multicore Haskell, ICFP '09). It's a SMP language. The implementation available in vanilla GHC with -threaded is the latter.