Haskell is a lazily evaluated functional programming language featuring partial function application and static type checking. It is notable for addressing traditionally imperative tasks with "Monads" to avoid violating pure lazy functional evaluation as in some other languages.
Questions tagged [haskell]
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Haskell platform on 14.04
Is it right that 14.04 does not have the haskell platform avaible by the software center.
Do I need to compile it by source or is there anothe way to make this work ?
Roelof
user1052732
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Installing GHC 7.8.2 on Ubuntu 13.04
First: Yes, I really do mean to install install just GHC, and not the Haskell Platform. I am installing in a VM made just for this purpose, I have the platform installed elsewhere.
So the standard instructions for installing from a distro mentions…
Jacques Carette
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Cabal always out of memory
When I try to use the version of cabal from the repositories every command gives an out of memory error.
$ cabal install hedis
cabal: out of memory (requested 2097152 bytes)
$ cabal update
Downloading the latest package list from…
pmgarvey
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What is the bootstrap.sh script?
I am trying to install cabal-install. Readme says I should use bootstrap.sh to download and install the dependencies. It says I should use this script like below
$ ./bootstrap.sh
But I couldn't find such script in /
So, the question is, what is the…
user251912
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Link all haskell commands to different version
I recently installed ghc 7.8, but now I want to go back to ghc 7.4
I installed ghc 7.8 via a binary package, but I didn't uninstall it correctly. When I run ghc, ghci or runhaskell, I get
/usr/local/bin/ghc: line 9: /usr/local/lib/ghc-7.8.2/bin/ghc:…
Geert
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