IFIP Working Group 2.8 Meeting
A pivotal meeting of functional programming researchers where the decision was made to form a committee to design a common standard for lazy functional languages.
Significance
This meeting was the crucible where the idea of Haskell was forged, uniting disparate research efforts under a common goal and laying the foundation for the language's creation.
Key facts
- Date
- 1987-09-01
- Type
- conference
- Location
- Portland, Oregon, USA (and/or San Antonio, Texas, USA)