How I came to love big data (or at least acknowledge its existence) by Noah of 37signals. Writing A Lisp Interpreter In Haskell. Monday, October 30, 2006 Introduction A while ago, after what now seems like eternity of flirting with Haskell articles and papers, I finally crossed the boundary between theory and practice and downloaded a Haskell compiler.
I decided to do a field evaluation of the language by two means. I was going to solve a problem in a domain that Haskell is known to excel at followed by a real world problem1 that hasn't had much exploration in Haskell2. Picking the problems was easy.