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Table of Contents for Programming Languages: a survey

Haskell

Attributes:

• functional

Pros:

• purity
• expressive type system
• lazy evaluation
• type classes
• monads

Retrospectives:

• http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/history-of-haskell/
• http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/haskell-retrospective/HaskellRetrospective.pdf
  • more at http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/haskell-retrospective/

Popularity:

• Beloved by those who use it, but not popular

Scala

Tours and tutorials:

• http://docs.scala-lang.org/tutorials/tour/tour-of-scala.html

Cons:

• big language
• slow compilation
• culture of punctuation-based DSLs can make readability hard

Best practices:

• http://docs.scala-lang.org/style/
• http://twitter.github.io/effectivescala/

ML

Pros:

• Powerful module system

links: http://www.itu.dk/people/tofte/publ/1990sml/1990sml.html

Ocaml

Tours and tutorials:

• http://blog.nullspace.io/beginners-guide-to-ocaml-beginners-guides.html