Concurrent Haskell

Authors:
  • SJSimon Peyton Jones
    Simon Peyton Jones
  • AGAndrew Gordon
    Andrew Gordon
  • SFSigbjorn Finne
    Sigbjorn Finne
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Abstract
Some applications are most easily expressed in a programminglanguage that supports concurrency, notably interactiveand distributed systems. We propose extensions to thepurely-functional language Haskell that allow it to expressexplicitly concurrent applications; we call the resulting languageConcurrent Haskell.