About Haskell

Haskell is the name of a general-purpose, purely-functional, lazy programming language with pattern matching, automatic type inference, type classes, and monadic input/output.

Wuh?

It’s a programming language. You write programs with it. It’s notable for being very clean, succinct, elegant, and powerful.

Code written in Haskell can be gloriously, wonderfully, delightfully clean, clear, crisp, short and simple. It can also be terrifyingly incomprehensible. My God, if anybody were to ever try to deliberately write obfuscated code with it… it’s too horrifying to think about!

(Programming in Haskell has been described as “writing programs in maths”, so that should give you some idea.)