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Specified Haskell 98 as a stable, non-strict, purely functional programming language together with its standard libraries, syntax, static semantics and core language behavior.
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Simon Peyton Jones; Lennart Augustsson; Dave Barton; Brian Boutel; Warren Burton; Joseph Fasel; Kevin Hammond; Ralf Hinze; Paul Hudak; John Hughes; Thomas Johnsson; Mark Jones; John Launchbury; Erik Meijer; John Peterson; Alastair Reid; Colin Runciman; Philip Wadler
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Peyton Jones and colleagues: Haskell 98 language and libraries
Specified Haskell 98 as a stable, non-strict, purely functional programming language together with its standard libraries, syntax, static semantics and core language behavior.
Scientific scope
The record is the official 18-author report published in February 1999. It does not absorb the 1987 language-design initiative, Haskell 1.0, compiler implementations, the revised 2002/2003 report or every acknowledged contributor.
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People and systems
Simon Peyton Jones; Lennart Augustsson; Dave Barton; Brian Boutel; Warren Burton; Joseph Fasel; Kevin Hammond; Ralf Hinze; Paul Hudak; John Hughes; Thomas Johnsson; Mark Jones; John Launchbury; Erik Meijer; John Peterson; Alastair Reid; Colin Runciman; Philip Wadler
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.